Ronald Breaker
Ronald R. Breaker | |
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| Nationality | Molecular Biology |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter T. Gilham |
| Other academic advisors | Gerald Joyce |
Ronald R. Breaker (born 1964) is an American biochemist who is a
ribozymes. [2]
Research
Ronald earned his
The Scripps Research Institute with Gerald Joyce. While at Scripps, he isolated the first DNA enzyme (deoxyribozyme).[3] He joined the molecular, cellular, and developmental biology department at Yale University. His research group worked on in vitro engineered riboswitches, RNA biosensors, and began to look for riboswitches in nature and identified the Cobalamin riboswitch.[2][4] Over the next decade, the group would perform pivotal work establishing the role of ligand-binding RNAs and resulted in the discovery of multiple classes of riboswitches.[5][6]
He has been a
U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[8]
Awards
- AAAS Fellow, 2004
- American Society for Microbiology Eli Lilly Award, 2005
- NAS Award in Molecular Biology, 2006
- Rolf Sammet Professorship, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2012
- Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, 2010
- U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2013
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Purdue University, 2014
- ASBMB–Merck Award, 2016
References
- ^ "Ronald Breaker". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ a b Yarnell, Amanda (23 March 2004). "C&EN: AHA! MOMENTS - RONALD R. BREAKER". pubsapp.acs.org. C&EN. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- PMID 9383394.
- PMID 12323379.
- ^ Parker, Nicole (1 March 2016). "Breaker 'vastly expanded our appreciation of the versatility of noncoding RNAs in biology'". www.asbmb.org. ASBMB. ASBMB.
- ^ Stone, Melissa (25 February 2010). "Riboswitches: A Molecular Archeological Discovery – Yale Scientific Magazine". www.yalescientific.org. yale scientific.
- ^ "Ronald R. Breaker". HHMI. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ "Ronald Breaker, Ph.D."
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