Michael T. Sykes

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I am currently a postdoc with Jamie Williamson at The Scripps Research Institute, where my research centers around proteomic mass spectrometry and ribosome assembly. In 2006 I completed my Ph.D. with the guidance of Michael Levitt at Stanford University studying the three-dimensional structure of RNA.

My personal preference is to avoid the bench, relying instead on computational tools to do my science. Where such tools do not already exist, I attempt to develop them using a combination of C, Perl and Cocoa. I develop exclusively on Mac OS X, but deploy my applications across a variety of Unix-based platforms.

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Education and Professional Experience

B.Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Alberta      1994-1998
 
Ph.D. in Biophysics, Stanford University (HHMI Fellow)      1998-2006
 
Postdoc w/ Jamie Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute (NIH Fellow)      2006-Current

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Teaching Experience

Structural Biology 228: Computational Structural Biology   2001, 2002 and 2004
    Taught by Professor Michael Levitt at Stanford University
 
Structural Biology 241: Biological Macromolecules   2002
    Taught by faculty from Biochemistry and Structural Biology at Stanford University