James Spudich
Anthony James Spudich ( born January 7, 1942 in Collinsville, Illinois) is an American biochemist at Stanford University.
Life
Spudich acquired in 1963 from the University of Illinois and a BS in chemistry in 1968 at Stanford University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at Stanford University and the University of Cambridge (England). He then became a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco ( 1971 Assistant Professor, 1974 Associate Professor, 1976 Associate Professor ). In 1977, he moved to Stanford University School of Medicine, where he held professorships in structural biology or developmental biology and currently (as of 2011 ) is a professor of biochemistry.
Work
Spudich has made fundamental contributions to understanding the motility of cells. He has developed important new in vitro methods to measure the mobility of actin and myosin and to generate mutations of the mobility targeted by gene targeting. As objects of research on the one hand muscles of mammals and on the other hand the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum can be used.
Spudich one of the editors, among others the renowned scientific journals Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ).