Background
Stryer, Lubert was born on March 2, 1938 in Tientsin, China.
biochemist university professor
Stryer, Lubert was born on March 2, 1938 in Tientsin, China.
Bachelor of Science with honors, University Chicago, 1957. Doctor of Medicine magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1961. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1992.
His research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light and life. lieutenant is now in its eighth edition and also edited by Jeremy Berg, John L. Tymoczko and Gregory J. Gatto, Junior. Stryer received his Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Chicago in 1957 and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School.
He was a Helen Hay Whitney Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at Harvard and then at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, before joining the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford in 1963.
In 1969 he moved to Yale to become Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and in 1976, he returned to Stanford to head a new Department of Structural Biology. Stryer and coworkers pioneered the use of fluorescence spectroscopy, particularly Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), to monitor the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules.
In 1967, Stryer and Haugland showed that the efficiency of energy transfer depends on the inverse sixth power of the distance between the donor and acceptor, as predicted by Förster"s theory. They proposed that energy transfer can serve as a spectroscopic ruler to reveal proximity relationships in biological macromolecules.
A second contribution was Stryer"s discovery of the primary stage of amplification in visual excitation.
Stryer, together with Fung and Hurley, showed that a single photoexcited rhodopsin molecule activates many molecules of transducin, which in turn activate many molecules of a cyclic Good Manufacturing Practice phosphodiesterase. Stryer"s laboratory has also contributed to our understanding of the role of calcium in visual recovery and adaptation. Stryer participated in developing light-directed, spatially addressable parallel chemical synthesis for the synthesis of peptides and polynucleotides.
Light-directed combinatorial synthesis has been used by Stephen Fodor and coworkers at Affymetrix to make deoxyribonucleic acid arrays containing millions of different sequences for genetic analyses.
Starting in 1975, Stryer authored four editions of a textbook entitled Biochemistry. Stryer also chaired a National Research Council committee that produced a report entitled Bio2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists.
Richard A. Mathies (postdoc), Dean of the College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Tobias Meyer (postdoc), now Professor, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University.
Trustee Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, 1997—2001, McKnight Endowment for the Neuroscis., 1999—2007. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (Newcomb Cleveland prize 1992), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society(award in biological chemistry Eli Lilly & Company, 1970), American Society Biological Chemists, Biophysics Society, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
