Stephen Harvey

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Stephen Craig Harvey , also Steve Harvey, (born April 13, 1940 in Bakersfield ) is an American biophysicist, structural biologist and professor at the University of Alabama .

Harvey graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1963, was an engineer with Aerojet General (missile testing for the Apollo program) from 1963 to 1965, volunteer in the Peace Corps in Colombia from 1965 to 1967, and graduated from Dartmouth College in biophysics in 1971 PhD. He then went to the University of Alabama, where he became an assistant professor in 1973 and a full professorship in physics, biochemistry and molecular genetics in 1986. He was then a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology , where he is Emeritus Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania .

He deals with the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, in particular with nucleic acids, virus structure and their self-assembly, the ribosome (structure-function relationships ) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL). He uses various methods of computer modeling and molecular mechanics.

With J. Andrew McCammon , he wrote a textbook on molecular mechanics and dynamics in biochemistry.

He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Biophysical Society , the American Physical Society , the American Society of Biological Chemists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is a member of the Federation of American Scientists.

Fonts

  • with J. Andrew McCammon: Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Cambridge University Press, 1987
  • The Scrunchworm Hypothesis: Transitions Between A-DNA and B-DNA Provide the Driving Force for Genome Packaging in Double-Stranded DNA Bacteriophages, J Struct Biol 189: 1-8 (2015).
  • with MR Smyda: The Entropic Cost of Polymer Confinement, J Phys Chem B 116, 10928-10934 (2012).
  • with AS Petrov, B. Devkota, MB Boz: Computational Approaches to Modeling Viral Structure and Assembly, Methods Enzymol 487, 513-543 (2011).
  • with AS Petrov: Packaging Double-Helical DNA into Viral Capsids: Structures, Forces and Energetics, Biophys J 95, 497-502 (2008).
  • with JA Mears, MR Sharma, RR Gutell, AS McCook, PE Richardson, TR Caulfield, RK Agrawal: A Structural Model of the Mitochondrial Ribosome, J. Mol. Biol. 358, 193-212 (2006).
  • with JP Segrest, MK Jones, AE Klon, CJ Sheldahl: Apolipoprotein AI in Discoidal High Density Lipoprotein: A Detailed Molecular Belt Model, J. Biol. Chem. 274, 31755-31758 (1999).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, Stephen Craig; Harvey, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakersfield (California)