Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt
For the American television producer, see Michael Levitt (producer).
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Born May 9, 1947 (1947-05-09) (age 64)
Institutions Stanford University
Alma mater Kings College, London
Notable students Ram Samudrala, Mark Bender Gerstein, Cyrus Chothia
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society 2001, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, EMBO member[1]

Professor Michael Levitt FRS (born 9 May 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a British biophysicist. He has been Professor of Structural biology, Stanford University, California, since 1987[2][3] working in computational biology[4] and bioinformatics.

He is one of the first people who simulated DNA and protein structures.[5][6][7][8] He is currently well known for developing approaches to predict macromolecular structures, having participated in many Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions.[9] He has mentored many successful scientists, including Mark Gerstein, Cyrus Chothia and Ram Samudrala.

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References

  1. ^ http://www.embo.org/embo-members/find-a-member.html Find an EMBO member
  2. ^ http://csb.stanford.edu/ Levitt Lab website
  3. ^ http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/ Lab Website Profile Page
  4. ^ Levitt, M. (2001). "The birth of computational structural biology". Nature Structural Biology 8 (5): 392–393. doi:10.1038/87545. PMID 11323711.  edit
  5. ^ Chothia, C.; Lesk, A. M.; Tramontano, A.; Levitt, M.; Smith-Gill, S. J.; Air, G.; Sheriff, S.; Padlan, E. A. et al. (1989). "Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions". Nature 342 (6252): 877–883. Bibcode 1989Natur.342..877C. doi:10.1038/342877a0. PMID 2687698.  edit
  6. ^ Levitt, M.; Chothia, C. (1976). "Structural patterns in globular proteins". Nature 261 (5561): 552–558. Bibcode 1976Natur.261..552L. doi:10.1038/261552a0. PMID 934293.  edit
  7. ^ Warshel, A.; Levitt, M. (1976). "Theoretical studies of enzymic reactions: Dielectric, electrostatic and steric stabilization of the carbonium ion in the reaction of lysozyme". Journal of molecular biology 103 (2): 227–249. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(76)90311-9. PMID 985660.  edit
  8. ^ Levitt, M. (1976). "A simplified representation of protein conformations for rapid simulation of protein folding". Journal of molecular biology 104 (1): 59–107. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(76)90004-8. PMID 957439.  edit
  9. ^ Chopra, G.; Kalisman, N.; Levitt, M. (2010). "Consistent refinement of submitted models at CASP using a knowledge-based potential". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 78 (12): n/a–n/a. doi:10.1002/prot.22781. PMC 2911515. PMID 20589633. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2911515.  edit
  10. ^ http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/2_Page_CV.html Michael Levitt CV


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