Elizabeth Rhoades
Anna Elizabeth Rhoades is a molecular biophysicist at University of Pennsylvania.[1] She is known for pioneering studies of protein folding using single-molecule techniques.
Education
Rhoades received her undergraduate education at Duke University, followed by Ph.D. studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in biophysics. Her dissertation supervisor was Ari Gafni.
She performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gilad Haran at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. While at the Weizmann Institute, Rhoades was involved in revolutionary single-molecule experiments studying the folding and unfolding of immobilized proteins.[2][3] Rhoades completed her postdoctoral research with Watt W. Webb at Cornell University, one of the co-inventors of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
Research
Rhoades studies intrinsically disordered proteins and amyloidogenic proteins involved in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and Type-II diabetes.
References
- ↑ "Anna Elizabeth Rhoades". Yale Phonebook. Yale University.
- ↑ Rhoades E, Gussakovsky E, Haran G (March 2003). "Watching proteins fold one molecule at a time". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 (6): 3197–202. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.3197R. doi:10.1073/pnas.2628068100. PMC 152269
. PMID 12612345. - ↑ Rhoades E, Cohen M, Schuler B, Haran G (November 2004). "Two-state folding observed in individual protein molecules". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 (45): 14686–7. doi:10.1021/ja046209k. PMID 15535670.