Temple F. Smith
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Born | Temple Ferris Smith March 7, 1939 (age 85) Auburn, New York |
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Known for | Smith-Waterman algorithm[3] |
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Institutions | Boston University |
Thesis | The deuteron amplitudes from a composite particle nuclear scattering theory (1969) |
Website | www |
Temple Ferris Smith (born March 7, 1939) is an emeritus professor in
Education
Smith obtained his bachelor's degree in 1963 from the Physics Department,
Research and career
After his PhD, Smith did
His research is centered on the application of various computer science and mathematical methods for the discovery of the syntactic and semantic patterns in nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. In recent years this has focus on molecular evolution of protein families. such as the WD-repeat beta propellers, translation associated GTPase, and the ribosomal proteins.
Smith has held the following appointments:
- 1965–1966: Instructor, US Air Force Lowery, Denver, CO
- 1971–1984: Professor, Department of Physics, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
- 1985–1991: Director, Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health
- 1991–2009: Director, BioMolecular Engineering Resource Center, Boston University
- 1999– : Co-organizer, 1999 Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth Discovering Biotechnology Day
- 2000– : Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer, Modular Genetics, Inc.
- 2000– : Youth Hockey Coach[citation needed]
Selected publications
- M. Mariotti, T. F. Smith, P. H. Sudmant and G. Goldberger, “Pseudogenization of testis-specific Lfg5 predates human/Neanderthal divergence”, Journal of Human Genetics 59, 288–291 (2014)
- Hyman Hartman and Temple F. Smith “The Evolution of the Ribosome and the Genetic Code”, Life, 4(2), 227–249 (2014)
- Hartman, H and T. F. Smith, “GTPases and the origin of the ribosome”, Biology Direct, 5:36-39, (2010)
- Hartman, Hyman and Smith, Temple F. “The evolution of the cilium and the eukaryotic cell” Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton.66: 215-219. (2009)
- Hu, Lan, Smith, Temple F. and Goldberger, Gabriel. “LFG: a candidate apoptosis regulatory gene family” Apoptosis. 14: 1255-1265. (2009)
- Smith, Temple F., Lee, Jung C., Gutell, Robin R. and Hartman, Hyman. “The Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome” Biology Direct 3: 16, 1–13 (2008)
- Smith, Temple F. “Chapter 2: Diversity of WD-Repeat Proteins” The Coronin Family of Proteins, 20–30 (2008)
- Bhutkar, Arjun V., Gelbart, William M. and Smith, Temple F. (2007). Inferring genome-scale rearrangement phylogeny and ancestral gene order: A Drosophila case study. Genome Biology 8, R236
- Bhutkar, Arjun, Russo, Susan M., Smith, Temple F. and Gelbart, William M. “Genome-Scale Analysis of Positionally Relocated Genes” Genome Research 17: 1880-1887 (2007)
- Hartman, Hyman, Favaretto, Paola and Smith, Temple F. “The Archaeal Origins of the Eukaryotic Translational System” Archaea 2: 1-9 (2006)
- Bienkowska, Jadwiga, Hartman, Hyman and Smith, Temple F. (2003). A search method for homologs of small proteins, Ubiquitin-like proteins in prokaryotic cells? Protein Engineering 16 (12), 897–904.
- Venkatesan, Kavitha, McManus, Heather R., Mello, Craig C., Smith, Temple F. and Hansen, Ulla. (2003). Functional conservation between members of an ancient duplicated transcription factor family, LSF/Grainyhead. Nucleic Acids Research 31(15), 4304–4316.
- Zhang YX1, Fox JG, Ho Y, Zhang L, Stills HF Jr, Smith TF. Comparison of the major outer-membrane protein (MOMP) gene of mouse pneumonitis (MoPn) and hamster SFPD strains of Chlamydia trachomatis with other Chlamydia strains. Mol Biol Evol. 1993 Nov;10(6):1327–42.
- Figge J, Smith TF. Cell division sequence motif. Nature 334 (6178), 109 (14 July 1988) |pmid=3290690 |doi=10.1038/334109a0.
Awards and honors
Smith was awarded the ISCB Senior Scientist Award[1] and elected ISCB Fellow in 2009 by the International Society for Computational Biology.[2]
Im 2002, he was inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) “for extraordinary contributions in defining and advancing the field of bioinformatics, with emphasis on novel engineering methods to predict protein structure and function”.[citation needed]
References
- ^ PMID 17604447.
- ^ a b "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20.
- ^ PMID 7265238.
- ^ a b "BioMolecular Engineering Research Center | Boston University". Bmerc-www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
- ^ "Temple Smith". Archived from the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
- ProQuest 302393082.
- ^ "Temple F. Smith, Ph.D. » Microbiology » BUMC". Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2011-10-28.