Jack W. Szostak

Affiliations: 
Genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States 
Area:
origin of life
Website:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/szostak/biographical/
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/3005867.html
http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/index.html
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~biophys/Jack_W_Szostak.htm
http://molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/

Cross-listing: Telomere and Telomerase Tree - Chemistry Tree

Parents

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Chen Kang Chai research assistant 1969 The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (GenetiTree)
 (Summer undergraduate project: analysis of thyroid hormones)
Melvin E. Goldstein research assistant 1973 McGill (Plant Biology Tree)
 (Sexual induction in Eudorina: effects of light, nutrients and conditioned medium.)
Ray J. Wu grad student 1977 Cornell (Chemistry Tree)

Children

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Rajat Rohatgi research assistant 1992-1994 Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Barbara Dunn grad student Harvard Medical School (Telomere and Telomerase Tree)
Jon Lorsch grad student Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Stephanie W. Ruby grad student (Plant Biology Tree)
Terry Orr-Weaver grad student 1979-1983 (FlyTree)
Andrew W. Murray grad student 1978-1984 Harvard Medical School (Cell Biology Tree)
Jennifer A. Doudna grad student 1989 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Rachel Green grad student 1992 Harvard (PombeTree)
David P. Bartel grad student 1993 Harvard
Hiroaki Suga grad student 1994-1997 Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Ananya Das grad student 2000 Harvard
Jack D. Pollard grad student 2000 Harvard
Jonathan M. Urbach grad student 2000 Harvard
Shelly M. Fujikawa grad student 2003 Harvard
Glen S. Cho grad student 2004 Harvard
James M. Carothers grad student 2005 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Irene A. Chen grad student 2005 Harvard
Justin K. Ichida grad student 2007 Harvard
Raphael J. Bruckner grad student 2010 Harvard
Mark P. Elenko grad student 2010 Harvard
Jason P. Schrum grad student 2010 Harvard
Simon G. Trevino grad student 2011 Harvard
Itay Budin grad student 2012 Harvard
Katarzyna P. Adamala grad student 2007-2013 Harvard Medical School (Neurotree)
Tony Z Jia grad student 2012-2016 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Chun Pong Tam grad student 2013-2018 Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
John C. Chaput post-doc Havard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Dean S. Dawson post-doc (Cell Biology Tree)
Andrew D. Ellington post-doc MGH (Cell Biology Tree)
Aaron E. Engelhart post-doc (Chemistry Tree)
Yollete V. Guillen Schlippe post-doc (Cell Biology Tree)
Matthew C. Hartman post-doc (Chemistry Tree)
Matthew Powner post-doc Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Michael Famulok post-doc 1990-1992 Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Richard W. Roberts post-doc 1993-1997 Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Sheref S. Mansy post-doc 2007 (Chemistry Tree)
Andrej Lupták post-doc 2002-2007 Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
Anna Wang post-doc 2016-2018 MGH (Physics Tree)
Saurja DasGupta post-doc 2019-2023 Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School (Chemistry Tree)
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Radakovic A, Lewicka A, Todisco M, et al. (2024) Structure-guided aminoacylation and assembly of chimeric RNAs. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology
Ding D, Fang Z, Kim SC, et al. (2024) Unusual Base Pair between Two 2-Thiouridines and Its Implication for Nonenzymatic RNA Copying. Journal of the American Chemical Society
Toparlak ÖD, Sebastianelli L, Egas Ortuno V, et al. (2023) Cyclophospholipids Enable a Protocellular Life Cycle. Acs Nano
Crucilla SJ, Ding D, Lozano GG, et al. (2023) UV-driven self-repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in RNA. Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England). 59: 13603-13606
DasGupta S, Zhang S, Szostak JW. (2023) Molecular Crowding Facilitates Ribozyme-Catalyzed RNA Assembly. Acs Central Science. 9: 1670-1678
Ashwood B, Jones MS, Radakovic A, et al. (2023) Thermodynamics and kinetics of DNA and RNA dinucleotide hybridization to gaps and overhangs. Biophysical Journal
Aitken HRM, Wright TH, Radakovic A, et al. (2023) Small-Molecule Organocatalysis Facilitates In Situ Nucleotide Activation and RNA Copying. Journal of the American Chemical Society
Zhang SJ, Lowe LA, Anees P, et al. (2023) Passive endocytosis in model protocells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2221064120
Ding D, Zhang SJ, Szostak JW. (2023) Enhanced nonenzymatic RNA copying with in-situ activation of short oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research
Fan Z, Deckel Y, Lowe LA, et al. (2023) Lipid Exchange Promotes Fusion of Model Protocells. Small Methods. e2300126
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