Staff Research

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Hsiu_Ju Chiu (Jessica), Ph.D.

Jessica Chiu is a staff scientist with the Structure Determination Core of the Joint Center for Structural Genomics at Stanford synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Her research interests include the structure-based drug design and the protein structure and function relationship in protein evolution.

Aina Cohen, Ph.D.

Aina Cohen is a Beamline Scientist at SSRL. Her research focuses on the development of novel techniques and specialized instrumentation for macromolecular x-ray crystallography using synchrotron radiation. In particular she has concentrated on developing improved methods for anomalous scattering phasing, cryogenics, experimental automation, and high-throughput crystallography.

Ashley M. Deacon, Ph.D.

Ashley is a Staff Scientist at SSRL and the Structure Determination Core leader of the Joint Center for Structural Genomics. His areas of expertise include direct methods and MAD phasing, and he was heavily involved in the development and first applications of the Shake-and-Bake algorithm to macromolecular structure determination. He is currently focused on the development of high-throughput data collection and structure determination technology for macromolecular crystallography.

Tzanko Doukov, Ph.D.

Tzanko is a Beamline Scientist at SSRL. His research interests focus on structure-function relationships in metal containing- and gas utilizing proteins. Currently he is investigating the mechanisms of CO2 utilization by proteins from the Wood-Ljungdahl reductive acetyl-CoA pathway.

Ana Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Ana is a Staff Scientist at SSRL. Her research interests are mainly focused on the development of tools to optimize both the quality and throughput of data collected at macromolecular crystallography synchrotron beamlines. In particular, she is interested in how data collection conditions affect the quality of experimental phases obtained by MAD/SAD techniques and in methods to minimize radiation damage to crystals during data collection. Recent Highlighted publications: A. Gonzalez: Optimizing data collection for structure determination. Acta Cryst.D 59, 2003, 1935-1942. A. Gonzalez. Faster data-collection strategies for structure determination using anomalous dispersion, Acta Cryst. D 59, 2003, 315-322.

Dan Harrington, Ph.D.

Daniel Harrington, Ph.D., is a Beamline Scientist at SSRL. As project manager, he directs a team of engineers and technicians who build and implement new beamline technologies at the SSRL. He is currently leading and coordinating the design and construction of the x-ray optics for a micro-focus beamline that will facilitate high-throughput macromolecular crystallography experiments on extremely small crystals. He also participates in a multi-university collaboration to determine the structures of catalytic RNAs.

Irimpan Mathews (Mathews), Ph.D.

Mathews is a Staff Scientist at SSRL. Research interests include analysis of structure-function relationships in proteins and structure-based drug discovery.

Paul Phizackerley, Stanford University Professor

Paul's interests are the development of novel techniques and specialized instrumentation for structural studies in molecular biology, using synchrotron radiation. In particular, developments in protein crystallography:- anomalous scattering phasing, time-resolved studies, cryo crystallography, automation, high-throughput crystallography, robotics and advanced electronic detectors.

Christopher Rife, Ph.D.

Christopher is a Staff Scientist at SSRL and works with the Joint Center for Structural Genomics. He is primarily involved with structure determination and refinement of proteins solved using high-throughput methods.

Clyde A. Smith, Ph.D.

Clyde is Staff Scientist at SSRL. His research focuses on the structure determination of proteins and enzymes by macromolecular X-ray crystallography.

Qingping Xu, Ph.D.

Qingping Xu, is a Staff Scientist at SSRL. His research focuses on the structure determination of proteins by X-ray crystallography. His research interests include protein structure and function, high-throughput crystallography technology development and protein folding.