curriculum vitae - Linda Columbus

    Education:

    1996 - 2001 University of California Los Angeles.
    Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    1992 - 1996 Smith College Northampton, MA.
    B.A. in Chemistry with High Honors.

    Research Experience:

    2002 - The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA
    Postdoctoral Fellow; Advisor: Kurt Wüthrich
    2001 - 2002 University of California, Los Angeles
    Graduate Research; Advisor: Wayne L. Hubbell
    1994 - 1996 Smith College Northampton, MA
    Undergraduate Research; Advisor: David Bickar

    Teaching Experience:

    1996 - 1997 University of California, Los Angeles, CA
    Teaching Assistant for the Department of Biochemistry
    1995 - 1996 Smith College Northampton, MA
    Teaching Assistant for Organic Synthesis Laboratory
    1993 - 1996 Smith College Northampton, MA
    Smith College Tutor

    Honors, Awards and Fellowships:

    2000 Eli Lilly & Company Best Poster Award at the 14th Protein Society Symposium
    1999 - 2001 NRSA Institutional Training Grant
    1997 - 1999 Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant
    1996 - 1997 Alumnae Association Fellowship Award
    1996 American Chemical Society Student Award
    1996 Smith College Chemistry Award
    1996 First Group Scholar
    1995 Elected to Sigma Xi Deans List (1995-1996, 1994-95, and1992-93)
    1995 Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellowship
    1994 Smith College Summer Research Fellowship
    1993 Smith College Summer Research Fellowship

    Professional Activities:

    1998 - present EPR Society
    1998 - present Protein Society
    1998 - present Biophysical Society

    Invited Talks and Presentations??:

    Preparation and Characterization of alpha-helical Membrane Proteins from Thermotoga maritima for Solution NMR Structural Studies. Columbus, L., Klock, H., Lesley, S., Wüthrich,K. Platform presentation 918-Plat at the 49th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. Long Beach, CA. February 12-16, 2005
    Preparation and Characterization of alpha-helical Membrane Proteins from Thermotoga maritima for Solution NMR Structural Studies. Columbus, L., Klock, H., Lesley, S., Wüthrich,K. Poster 131 at the Keystone Symposium: Frontiers of NMR in Molecular Biology. Banff, Alberta Canada. January 29- February 4, 2005
    EPR Studies of Transthyretin in Native and Amyloid Forms. Agarraberes, F., Columbus, L., Ebse, A., Horwich, A., and Hubbell, W. L. FASEB Summer Research Conference: Protein Misfolding and Conformational Disease. Snowmass, CO. June 12-17, 2005
    Mapping Backbone Motions of the Basic Leucine Zipper of GCN4 with Site-directed Spin Labeling. Columbus, L., Hubbell, W. L. Platform presentation 111-Plat the 46th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. San Francisco, CA. February 23-27, 2002
    Mapping Backbone Motions of the Basic Leucine Zipper of GCN4 with Site-directed Spin Labeling. Columbus, L., Hubbell, W. L. Poster 115 at the Keystone Symposium: Frontiers in Structural Biology. Breckenridge, CO. January 5-11, 2002
    Mapping Backbone Dynamics in the Nanosecond Regime with Site-directed Spin Labeling. Columbus, L., Hideg, K., Hubbell, W. Poster 414-T at the 14th Symposium of the Protein Society. San Diego, CA August 5-9, 2000
    Mapping Backbone Dynamics with Site-directed Spin Labeling. Columbus, L., Kalai, T., Jeko, J. Hideg, K., Hubbell, W. L. Platform presentation 666-Plat at the 45th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. Boston, MA. February 17-21, 2001

    TH, 10-14-2002