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13 unusual facts about biochemistry


Ash Koley

She graduated from Miles MacDonell Collegiate and graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at the University of Winnipeg.

Ed Homan

In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University in 1964, and four years later received his Doctorate in Medicine.

Frances Arnold

She is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she studies evolution and its applications in science, medicine, chemicals and energy.

Harold Dadford West

Harold Dadford West (July 16, 1904 – March 5, 1974) was an American biochemist who was the first to synthesize threonine.

Helmut Beinert

Helmut Beinert (17 November 1913 – 21 December 2007) was a professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

John Harland Bryant

Following a fellowship in biochemistry at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and a special research fellowship in biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Dr. Bryant took a fellowship in hematology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nitza Margarita Cintrón

In 1972 she was accepted into the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology training program offered by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and in 1978 she earned a Ph.D. degree there.

Plasma medicine

Direct interaction of active plasma components with biochemical and physiological processes influencing growth and vitality of cells and tissue

Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences

This faculty also administers Queen's University's highly competitive Life Sciences and Biochemistry programs.

Salvatore DiMauro

His research focuses on genetic errors of energy metabolism and he defines disease entities using both biochemical and molecular approaches.

Stephen E. Harding

Stephen E. Harding (born August 2, 1955) is a British biochemist specialising in biomolecular hydrodynamics.

Susan Perlman

Dr. Perlman received her B.S. in Biochemistry in 1971 from Cornell University and her MD in 1975 from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook.

Valentina Kozlovskaya

Kozlovskaya is a biochemist by profession and her main hobby apart from chess is classical music.


Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency

These two succinylpurines are the dephosphorylated derivatives of SAICA ribotide (SAICAR) and adenylosuccinate (S-AMP), the two substrates of adenylosuccinate lyase (ASL), which catalyzes an important reaction in the de novo pathway of purine biosynthesis.

Alltech

Lyons was born in Dundalk, Ireland and was educated in University College Dublin and the University of Birmingham, England, where he received a PhD in the biochemistry of yeast.

Benoit Coulombe

Born in Granby, Québec, Canada in 1958, Coulombe obtained his bachelor degree in Biochemistry (1981) and his PhD in Molecular Biology (1988) at the University of Montreal before undertaking postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto and the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Bodhraj Acharya

He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Biochemistry and Cell biology at Kyungpook National University.

Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Carl J. Shapiro Science Center complex, which opened in January 2009, is a five-story teaching and research-laboratory building which contains modern teaching and research spaces for biochemistry, biology, chemistry, and genomics.

Byrchall High School

Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of antibodies, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry from 1967-85 at the University of Oxford

Christopher Jaroniec

Christopher Jaroniec is an American associate professor of analytical, physical, chemical physics and biochemistry.

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate

cAMP also binds to and regulates the function of ion channels such as the HCN channels and a few other cyclic nucleotide-binding proteins such as Epac1 and RAPGEF2.

Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Until 2008 biochemistry was also occupying the Donald Woods building and the Hans Krebs building, that was deserted after completion of the first part of new biochemistry building in autumn 2008.

Ernest Baldwin

He won a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 scholarship for 1933–1935, remaining at Cambridge to study biochemistry.

FGF and mesoderm formation

Activation of FGF by two ligands that function together, FGF4 and FGF8 (17) in Xenopus and FGF8 and FGF24 in zebrafish (18), is necessary for mesoderm formation.

Good's buffers

Piperazine-containing buffers (PIPES, HEPES, POPSO and EPPS) can form radicals and should be avoided in studies of redox processes in biochemistry.

Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute

Chang earned his B.A. in biochemistry graduating magna cum laude from the University of California, and received his medical degree at Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

Helen Verran

She trained as a scientist and teacher in the 1960s (BSc, DipEd, University of New England and has a PhD in metabolic biochemistry (UNE, 1972).

Isa Kalantari

He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from Iowa State University, and PhD in agricultural physiology from University of Nebraska.

James Shapiro

James A. Shapiro, American professor of biochemistry and molecular biology

Jennifer Doudna

Doudna was promoted to the position of Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale in 2000.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Ju-Chin Chu

His eldest son Gilbert Chu is a professor and researcher of biochemistry and medicine at Stanford University, while the youngest Morgan Chu, is a partner and the former Co-Managing Partner at the law firm Irell & Manella LLP.

Karst Hoogsteen

Karst Hoogsteen is famous in the biochemistry world for noting a new base pairing form in DNA, now called Hoogsteen base pairs.

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Kazuyuki Nakamura is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics, at Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.

Kiril Bratanov

His academic career began in 1940 when he became Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sofia.

Kris Lemche

Abandoning plans to study biochemistry in University, Lemche instead moved to Prince Edward Island to work on the CBC series Emily of New Moon.

Leloir Institute

Located in the Caballito section of the city and facing Parque Centenario, the new facilities total over 6,900 m² (74,000 ft²) and include laboratories, teaching facilities, an auditorium and the National Biochemistry Reference Library.

Leonard Herzenberg

In 1955, he received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in biochemistry with a specialization in immunology for studies on cytochrome in Neurospora.

Leslie Orgel

He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and he was one of five principal investigators in the NASA-sponsored NSCORT program in exobiology.

Matt Kaeberlein

In addition to his primary appointment, Dr. Kaeberlein is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at the Aging Research Institute of Guangdong Medical College in Dongguan, China.

Melvin Sabshin

By graduation, he had decided to go into psychiatry as he was influenced by Robert Heath, M.D., the head of psychiatry and neurology at Tulane and studied the biochemistry of schizophrenia.

Nadia Rosenthal

She received her PhD from Harvard Medical School and was an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School before transferring to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where she replaced Klaus Rajewsky who had just gone to work at Harvard Medical School.

Nenad Ban

His interest in large macromolecular assemblies led him for his postdoctoral work to the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University where he determined the atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit by X-ray crystallography, as part of the group in the laboratory of Thomas A. Steitz.

Nicholas Attygalle

Holding the post until 1953, Departments of Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Paediatrics, Parasitology and Pharmacology were established in the Colombo Medical Faculty and postgraduate examinations in Medicine (MD, MS and MOG) also commenced during this period.

Nuno Piloto

Still as a professional footballer, Piloto graduated from the University of Coimbra with a degree in biochemistry, majoring in 2005.

Obong University

The university offers a College of Natural and Applied Sciences with degrees available in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Electronics.

Paris Descartes University

Headquartered in the historic École de Chirurgie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the university strongly focus on medical sciences (medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology), biomedical sciences (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biomedical physic), social sciences (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, demographics, science of education), mathematics, computer science and law.

Peter Guy Wolynes

In 2000 he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego as the Francis Crick Chair in the Physical Sciences at UCSD and in addition to continuing his work on many body chemical physics, protein folding and structure prediction, he is also studying stochastic aspects of cell biology.

Pichia stipitis

Found, among other places, in the guts of passalid beetles, S. stipitis is capable of both aerobic and oxygen limited fermentation, and has the highest known natural ability of any yeast to directly ferment xylose, converting it to ethanol, a potentially economically valuable trait.

Richard Tecwyn Williams

In 1949 he took up the chair of biochemistry at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London where, in the 1950s, he worked on the metabolism of thalidomide.

Robert K. Crane

After that, he was professor and chairman of the department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School until 1966 and then became professor and chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School (now known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey until 1986.

Salma Yaqoob

Yaqoob had to challenge her father's "cultural fears" in order to be allowed to enrol at university and eventually attended Aston University where she studied biochemistry and psychology and became a qualified psychotherapist.

SAT Subject Test in Biology E/M

There are more specific questions related respectively on ecological concepts (such as population studies and general Ecology) on the E test and molecular concepts such as DNA structure, translation, and biochemistry on the M test.

Silver Donald Cameron

One of the Terrio daughters, Marie Louise "Lulu" Terrio had gone to Denmark the year before he moved to the village to study biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen.

Tanta University

Student gets the degree of Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences (B.Sc.) after successfully passing 10 semesters studying in 8 departments including: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical analytical chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacognosy, Microbiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacy.

Trichloroacetic acid

It is widely used in biochemistry for the precipitation of macromolecules, such as proteins, DNA, and RNA.

Victor deGrazia

He studied psychoanalysis and biochemistry at the University of Chicago and Lake Forest College and composition at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, but earned no degree.

Zinc gluconate

Gluconic acid is found naturally, and is industrially manufactured by the fermentation of glucose, typically by Aspergillus niger, but also by other fungi, e.g. Penicillium, or by bacteria, e.g. Acetobacter, Pseudomonas and Gluconobacter.