Gregory Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko (born August 7, 1948) is an American

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Education

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Petsko was an undergraduate at Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1970. He received a Rhodes Scholarship, and obtained his doctorate in Molecular Biophysics from Merton College, Oxford supervised by David Phillips, studying the structure and mechanism of the enzyme triosephosphate isomerase. [1]

He did a brief postdoctoral fellowship in Paris with

Petsko's independent academic career has included stints at

Petsko is best known for his collaborative work with Dagmar Ringe, in which they used X-ray crystallography to solve important problems in protein function including protein dynamics as a function of temperature and problems in mechanistic enzymology,^[13][14][15] and for his collaborative work with Dr. Scott Small of Columbia University, which focuses on the retromer endosomal protein trafficking pathway and its role in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.^{[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]}

At MIT and Brandeis, he and Dagmar Ringe trained a large number of current leaders in structural molecular biology who now have leadership roles in science. These individuals include:

• Tom Alber and John Kuriyan, professors at University of California, Berkeley (Kuriyan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences)
• Barry Stoddard and Roland Strong, faculty at
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Ilme Schlichting, department head at Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
• Ann Stock, professor at the
  Rutgers
• Steven Almo, professor and chair of biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Axel Brunger, professor at Stanford University and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Elias Lolis, professor at Yale University
• Dennis Vitkup, professor at Columbia University
• Charles Brenner, department head at University of Iowa
• Karen Allen, professor and chair of chemistry at Boston University
• Lynne Howell, professor at University of Toronto
• David Rose, professor at University of Waterloo
• and Stephen Burley formerly of SGX Pharmaceuticals and now head of the Protein Data Bank

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