EDUCATION

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 1966
Advisor: Prof. Edward R. Thornton
Thesis: A Kinetic Study of the Hydrolysis and Imidazole-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Substituted Benzoyl Imidazole in Light and Heavy Water

A.B. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 1962

ACADEMIC CAREER

Joel Henry Hildebrand Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003
Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2003
Professor of molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-present
Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-present
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1982
Assistant Professor of Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1978
Associate Member, The Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, 1977-1978
Assistant Member, The Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, 1972-1977
Research Associate, The Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, 1970-1972
Postdoctoral Associate, The Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, 1968-1970
Affiliated with Dept. of Chemistry, University College, London, England, 1967-1968
Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel, 1966-1967

HONORS (selected, 2000-present)

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
Merck Award, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2007
Honorary Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Remsen Award, Maryland Section of the ACS, 2005
David S. Sigman Lectureship Award, UCLA, 2003
American Philosophical Society (elected), 2001
Merit Award, National Institutes of Health, 1991-2001
Honorary Ph.D. at the University of Upsalla, Sweden, 2000

PLENARY AND NAMED LECTURES (selected, 2000-present)

Plenary Speaker, Trends in Enzymology 2008, St. Malo, France
Keynote Lecturer, Inauguration- Max Planck Program on Quantum Dynamics, Germany, 2007
Boehringer Ingelheim Research Lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2007
Royal society Chem. Comm. Lecturer, Pacifichem 2005, Hawaii, 2005
Richard L. Schowen Lecturer in Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2005
R. Gaurth Hansen Lectureship, Utah State University, 2005
Women Leaders in Biosciences Lectureship, UC San Francisco, 2004
Gunning Lecturer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2003
American Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists, Plenary Lecturer, 2003
Intl. Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Plenary Lecturer, San Diego, 2002
James D. and Paula P. Morrison Lecturer, Carleton College, 2002
Intl. Conference n B6 and Quinones, Plenary Lecturer, Southampton, UK, 2002
British Biophysical Society Lecturer, Leeds University, UK
Johnson Foundation Discussions, "40 Years of Tunneling in Biology", PA, 2002
Research Frontiers in Chemistry, University of Iowa, 2001
Distinguished Lecturer, Macromol. & Cellular Struct. & Chem., Scripps Institute, 2000
Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, IN, 2000

EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS (selected 2000-present)

Blue Ribbon Committee Member, to evaluate US/Israel Binational Science Program, 2007
Organizing Committee, agouron Institute Conference on Oxygen, 2006
Program on Enzyme Dynamics, albert einstein Medical College, 2005-present
Chemistry and Biodiversity, Editorial Board Member, 2004-present
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Advisory Board Member, 2003-present
Current Opinions in Chemical Biology, Editorial Board, 1997-present
Biochemistry, Editorial Board, 1993-present
Gordon Conference on Protein Derived Cofactors, Radicals & Quinones, Chair, 2002
Mesilla Conference on Tunneling and Dynamics in Proteins, Co-Chair, 2000


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Biophysical Sociiety, 1996-present
Protein Society, 1996-present
American Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologist, 1972-present
Sigma Xi, 1966-present
American Chemical Society, 1964-present