Ph.D. Program in Structural and
Computational Biology and
Molecular Biophysics

Wah Chiu

Wah Chiu

Baylor College of Medicine

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Address: One Baylor Plaza,
N420 Alkek Building
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-798-6985
Fax: 713-798-8682
Email: wah@bcm.edu
Web: ncmi.bcm.edu

Education

B.A. Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1969)
Ph.D. Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley (1975)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1979)

Honors

1986 Guggenheim Fellow
1996 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize
1999 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2003 Chinese Biophysicist Network Award

Research Topic

Structural and Computational Biology of Biological Machines

Research Description

Our research is focused on the development of the high throughput methodology for electron cryomicroscopy and computational methods to solve 3-dimensional structures of macromolecular machines towards atomic resolution. The biological applications of our methodology include viruses, ion channels, membranes, oligomeric proteins and cyotskeletal protein complexes. Research effort is made to derive functions of the machine components via computational approaches.

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Lab Members

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Lab Photos

Chiu lab

Last edited on: August 31, 2006