James A. Spudich

James Anthony Spudich (born January 7, 1942 in Collinsville , Illinois ) is an American biochemist at Stanford University .

Life

Spudich earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1968. in biochemistry . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and Cambridge University (England). He then received a professorship for biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (1971 Assistant Professor , 1974 Associate Professor , 1976 Full Professor). In 1977 he moved to Stanford University School of Medicine , where he held professorships for structural and developmental biology and is currently (as of 2011) professor for biochemistry.

Act

Spudich made fundamental contributions to the understanding of cell motility . He has developed important new in vitro methods to measure the motility of actin and myosin and to specifically generate motility mutations using gene targeting . Mammalian muscles on the one hand and the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum on the other hand are used as research objects .

Spudich is one of the editors u. a. of the renowned scientific journals Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Awards (selection)

• 1977 Guggenheim scholarship
• 1989 President of the American Society for Cell Biology
• 1991 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1994 External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
• 1996 Rosenstiel Award
• 1997 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1998 Keith R. Porter Lecture
• 2001 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2011 EB Wilson Medal
• 2012 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
• 2012 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• 2013 Massry Prize

Web links

• James Spudich Profile and Spudich Lab at Stanford University ; Retrieved June 23, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorandum (PDF; 287 kB) at the University of California, San Francisco (ucsf.edu); Retrieved September 10, 2012
2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - James A. Spudich. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 9, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ASCB Presidents at ascb.org; accessed on February 8, 2016
4. ↑ Directors and other scientific members. In: biochem.mpg.de. Retrieved February 9, 2016 . 
5. ^ Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 16, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Spudich, James Anthony. In: aaas.org. February 24, 2017, accessed April 16, 2018 . 
8. ↑ EB Wilson Medal at the American Society for Cell Biology (ascb.org); Retrieved September 16, 2012
9. ^ The Lasker Foundation - 2012 Awards. In: laskerfoundation.org. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .