Gary Schuster
Gary Benjamin Schuster (born August 6, 1946 in New York City ) is an American chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology , of which he was temporarily President.
Schuster studied chemistry at Clarkson College of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1971 . As a post-doctoral student , he was in radiation chemistry with the US Army and Columbia University . For twenty years from 1975 he was Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he headed the chemistry faculty from 1989 to 1994, and since 1994 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was Dean, in 2006 Provost and 2008–2009 interim President. He's a Vasser Woolley professor there .
He conducts research on oxidative damage to DNA, and found that the damage does not necessarily occur at the original oxidation site, but can migrate along the DNA via cation radicals over long distances (hundreds of Angstroms). He is also concerned with the possibility of producing DNA nano-conductors.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2009 he was a member of the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates . In 1994 he was an Arthur C. Cope Scholar and in 2006 he received the Charles Holmes Herty Medal. In 1977 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1985 a Guggenheim Fellow .
Fonts
- Long-Range Charge Transfer in DNA: Transient Structural Distortions Control the Distance Dependence, Accounts of Chemical Research 33, 2000, 253-260
- with W. Chen, G. Güler, E. Kuruvilla, H.-C. Chiu, E. Riedo Development of Self-Organizing, Self-Directing Molecular Nanowires: Synthesis and Characterization of Conjoined DNA-2,5-Bis (2-thienyl) pyrroles Oligomers Macromolecules, 43, 2010, 4032-4040.
- with J. Joseph One-electron oxidation of DNA: Reaction at thymine , Chem. Commun., 46, 2010, 1-7.
- with S. Kavanah, J. Joseph, CL Clevland, RN Barnett, U. Landman Oxidation of DNA: Damage to Nucleobases , Acc. Chem. Res., 43, 2010, 280-287.
- with S. Kavanah One-electron oxidation of DNA: thymine versus guanine reactivity , Org. Biomol. Chem. 8, 2010, 1340-1343.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
- ↑ Brief biography, NCBI .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shoemaker, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuster, Gary Benjamin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |