Jane Richardson

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Jane S. Richardson
Ribbon model of the triose phosphate isomerase monomer , hand drawn by Jane Richardson

Jane Shelby Richardson (born January 25, 1941 in Teaneck , New Jersey ) is an American biochemist and professor at Duke University . She became known, among other things, for the development of ribbon models to represent the protein structure.

Education and career

As a student at Teaneck High School , she won third place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search for determining the orbit of Sputnik through her own observation in 1958 . She graduated from Swarthmore College and Harvard University in 1966 with a Masters . She followed her husband, David C. Richardson , who was doing his PhD at MIT at the time , as an X-ray structural analysis assistant . Her research focused on determining the structure of proteins . The couple later moved to Duke University, where they held various academic positions. In the early 1980s she began drawing ribbon models as a method of interpreting the structure of proteins. In 1985 she was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship . She was later elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine . In 2012 she was elected Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association and President of the Biophysical Society for one year . For 2019 she was awarded the Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics .

Publications

  • The "de novo" design of protein structures , Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co, 1989,
  • The Kinemage Supplement to introduction ot protein structure , New York: Garland, 1999
  • as co-author: Molecular structures in biology , Oxford University Press
  • as co-author: Exploring molecular structure , Carrboro: Neil Patterson Publishing, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jane S. Richardson. In: Chemical Heritage Foundation. Retrieved February 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Jane Shelby Richardson: The anatomy and taxonomy of protein structure. In: Advances in protein chemistry. Volume 34, 1981, pp. 167-339, ISSN  0065-3233 . PMID 7020376 .
  3. ^ JS Richardson: Schematic drawings of protein structures. In: Methods in enzymology. Volume 115, 1985, pp. 359-380, ISSN  0076-6879 . PMID 3853075 .
  4. ^ JS Richardson: Early ribbon drawings of proteins. In: Nature structural biology. Volume 7, Number 8, August 2000, pp. 624-625, ISSN  1072-8368 . doi : 10.1038 / 77912 . PMID 10932243 . PDF ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / csb.stanford.edu
personal data
SURNAME Richardson, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richardson, Jane Shelby (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Teaneck , New Jersey