William G. Scott

Contact

• Complete contact information

Background

• A few informal details

Fields of Interest

• Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography

• RNA Structure and Ribozyme Catalysis

• Protein Structure and Function and Enzyme Catalysis
  

• Computational Biophysics
  

• The Chemistry of Self-Replication and the Origin of Life
  

Education

• B.S., Chemistry, B.S., Biology, 1985, Bates College, Maine (Advisors: David Ledlie and Joseph Pelliccia)

• Ph.D. Chemistry, 1992, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor: Sung-Hou Kim)

• Post-Doc, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (Advisor: Aaron Klug)

Work Experience

• Laboratory Technician, Boston University, 1985-1986

• Graduate Student Research and Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, 1986-1992

• Visiting Fellow, 1992-1993, CIRES, Boulder, Colorado (Advisor:  John Birks)

• American Cancer Society Post-Doc, 1993-1996, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (Advisor: Aaron Klug)

• Assistant Professor, 1997-1998, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Assistant Professor, 1998-2002, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California at Santa Cruz

• Associate Professor, 2002-2008, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California at Santa Cruz

• Professor, 2008-, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California at Santa Cruz

Scientific Publications and Resources

• Recent publication highlights with quick links

• Complete list of publications

• Crystallographic structures deposited in the protein data bank

• My Research Group web pages

• Crystallography on OS X website
  

• Scientific Computing on OS X wiki

• Fink packages maintained

Teaching Experience and Resources

• My Teaching Summary web page with overview and links.

• Advanced Biophysical Chemistry (Chem 200A: introduction to biophysical techniques for graduate students)

• Nucleic Acids Chemistry (Chem 200C: nucleic acids structure and function for graduate students)

• Introductory Chemistry (Chem 1C: third term of introductory chemistry focusing on thermodynamics, kinetics, etc)

• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB 100B: upper-level undergrad course on enzyme kinetics, mechanisms and signal transduction)

• Physical Chemistry Laboratory