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 | Karen Allen
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, United States of America | | | Faculty Member: CHEMICAL BIOLOGY > Biocatalysis [ since 30 July 2003 ] |
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Karen N. Allen
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Boston University School of Medicine
715 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118-2394
Tel: 617-638-4398
Fax: 617-638-4285
Email: drkallen@bu.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine. B.S. in Biology, 1984, Tufts University, cum laude, Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1989, Brandeis University, supported as a Dretzin Scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Abeles. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1993 in the laboratory of Drs. Gregory Petsko and Dagmar Ringe at MIT and Brandeis University, Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Enzymes Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways (2002); Member, NIH Biochemistry Study Section (2002-present); Member NSF Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Panel (1997-2000); Member, Nominating Committee, American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry (2002)
Research Interests: Elucidation of enzyme mechanisms through X-ray crystallography and kinetics. Mechanism of phosphate transfer reactions, evolution of substrate specificity in enzyme superfamilies, deciphering moonlighting functions of enzymes via examination of protein-protein interactions on the molecular level.
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