David Bartel
David P. Bartel is a molecular biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Life
Bartel acquired in 1982 at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, a bachelor's degree in biology. He then worked with his wife for the Mennonite Central Committee in Zambia. 1993 acquired Bartel at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in virology. His dissertation was titled RNA recognition and catalysis: I. New ribozymes from random sequences; II The HIV rev - RRE interaction. As a postdoctoral fellow, he went in 1994 at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remained in the sequence. In 1996 he became Professor of Biology ( Assistant Professor, 2002 Associate Professor ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today ( as of 2012) he has there a full professorship.
Since 2005, Bartel research in addition to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Bartel is married and has three children.
Work
Bartel discovered a number of catalytically active RNA and analyzed the genes that code for microRNA, and the molecules that bind to this. His work support the RNA world hypothesis. 2001 he synthesized a ribozyme that is in turn able to synthesize an RNA strand which is complementary to a template ( replication). In addition, Bartel was able to show that an RNA fold in different ways and may catalyze different reactions.
Bartel is one of the most cited scientists in the field of molecular biology and genetics.
Awards (selection)
- 2002 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2005 NAS Award in Molecular Biology
- 2005 Grand Prix scientifique of the Fondation Louis D. at the Institute de France
- 2009 David Perlman Memorial Lectureship of the American Chemical Society
- 2011 membership in the National Academy of Sciences