Stephen Cusack
Stephen Cusack at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born
Stephen Anthony Cusack
Alma materImperial College London (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory
ThesisElectron Density and Pair Correlation Functions in Metals (1976)
Websiteembl.fr/research/unit/cusack

Stephen Anthony Cusack FRS[1] is the former Head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) site in Grenoble, France.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Education

Cusack was educated at Imperial College London where he was awarded a PhD in 1976 for research on the Radial distribution function and electron density in metals.[8][9][10][11]

Awards and honours

Cusack was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

Stephen Cusack is internationally renowned for major contributions in three areas. He has elucidated the structure and function of protein-RNA complexes involved in RNA maturation, translation and pattern recognition. These are exemplified by work on amino acyl tRNA synthetases, crucial to protein synthesis in all living organisms and analyses of the innate immune recognition of pathogens. As head of the EMBL outstation in Grenoble he has played a pioneering role in the development of instrumentation for structural biology at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, benefiting the structural biology community throughout Europe, and he has recently played a wider role in Europe as a founder of the Instruct project. He has in addition made a series of seminal advances in our understanding of the structure and life cycle of viruses, with particular focus on therapeutic potential.[1]

In 1998, Cusack was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Anon (2015). "Dr Stephen Cusack FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015.
  2. ^ Stephen A. Cusack's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ^ Doster, W; Cusack, S; Petry, W (1989). "Dynamical transition of myoglobin revealed by inelastic neutron scattering". Nature. 337 (6209): 754–6. Bibcode:1989Natur.337..754D. doi:10.1038/337754a0. PMID 2918910. S2CID 4344244.
  4. ^ Weis, W; Brown, J. H.; Cusack, S; Paulson, J. C.; Skehel, J. J.; Wiley, D. C. (1988). "Structure of the influenza virus haemagglutinin complexed with its receptor, sialic acid". Nature. 333 (6172): 426–31. Bibcode:1988Natur.333..426W. doi:10.1038/333426a0. PMID 3374584. S2CID 2848552.
  5. ^ Cusack, S; Berthet-Colominas, C; Härtlein, M; Nassar, N; Leberman, R (1990). "A second class of synthetase structure revealed by X-ray analysis of Escherichia coli seryl-tRNA synthetase at 2.5 Å". Nature. 347 (6290): 249–55. Bibcode:1990Natur.347..249C. doi:10.1038/347249a0. PMID 2205803. S2CID 4248549.
  6. ^ Biou, V; Yaremchuk, A; Tukalo, M; Cusack, S (1994). "The 2.9 Å crystal structure of T. Thermophilus seryl-tRNA synthetase complexed with tRNA(Ser)". Science. New York, N.Y. 263 (5152): 1404–10. doi:10.1126/science.8128220. PMID 8128220.
  7. ^ Stephen A. Cusack publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. ^ Cusack, Stephen Anthony (1976). Electron Density and Pair Correlation Functions in Metals (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. OCLC 500414296.
  9. ^ Cusack, S.; March, N. H.; Parrinello, M.; Tosi, M. P. (1976). "Electron-electron pair correlation function in solid and molten nearly-free electron metals". Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics. 6 (5): 749. Bibcode:1976JPhF....6..749C. doi:10.1088/0305-4608/6/5/017.
  10. ^ Cusack, S. (1976). "Correlated bond percolation on the Bethe lattice". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 9 (6): L55–L59. Bibcode:1976JPhA....9L..55C. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/9/6/003.
  11. ^ Cusack, S; Miller, A (1979). "Determination of the elastic constants of collagen by Brillouin light scattering". Journal of Molecular Biology. 135 (1): 39–51. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(79)90339-5. PMID 529291.
  12. ^ "Find people in the EMBO Communities".
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