I earned a B.S. in Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), PhD in Biophysics (University of Keele, UK - worked at the Synchrotron Radiation Source with Joan Bordas using SAXS (small angle X-ray scattering and cryo-EM to study tubulin assembly). I did my postdoc in biophysics at LBNL (solved the structure of tubulin using electron crystallography working with Ken Downing). In 1998 I joined UC Berkeley's MCB Department as an Assistant Professor and have been here ever since. I have served as Head of the Biophysics graduate program at Berkeley, Head of the MCB Undergraduate Affairs Committee, and Division Head for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology. Additionally, I am an HHMI investigator (since 2000) and affiliated with the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Divison of LBNL. I am a member of the Biophysical Society (Fellow), the Protein Society, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) (Fellow). I was President of ASCB in 2020 and have serve on scientific boards, including the Life Science Institute (University of Michigan), the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund(Chair), the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, the Institute of Molecular Physiology, Vienna. I am the co-founder of MoMa Therapeutics, Boston.
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cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics
