John Keith Moffat

John 'Keith' Moffat (born 1943) is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago.[3][4] He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on the Advanced Photon Source.[3][5] He is most noted for his contributions to Time resolved crystallography.[6][7] He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and former Cornell University faculty member.[4] He has a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge under the Nobel laureate Max Perutz at MRC-LMB and an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh.[8][9] He is married with an adopted son.[3]

This article is about the University of Chicago biophysicist. For the Scottish mathematician, see Keith Moffatt. For the American high jumper, see Keith Moffatt (athlete). For other uses, see John Moffat and Moffat (surname).
John Keith Moffat
Born1943
Other namesKeith Moffat
OccupationProfessor; former Deputy Provost
EmployerUniversity of Chicago
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
King's College, Cambridge
Known forTime resolved crystallography
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Cornell University
Doctoral advisorMax Perutz
Other academic advisorsQuentin Gibson[1]
Notable studentsWerner G. Krebs [2]
Websitebiophysics.uchicago.edu/the-faculty/keith_moffat/

Selected publications
  • Srajer, V.; Teng, T.-y.; Ursby, T.; Pradervand, C.; Ren, Z.; Adachi, S.-i.; Schildkamp, W.; Bourgeois, D.; Wulff, M.; Moffat, K. (1996). "Photolysis of the Carbon Monoxide Complex of Myoglobin: Nanosecond Time-Resolved Crystallography". Science. 274 (5293): 1726–9. Bibcode:1996Sci...274.1726S. doi:10.1126/science.274.5293.1726. PMID 8939867.
  • Crosson, S.; Moffat, K. (2001). "Structure of a flavin-binding plant photoreceptor domain: Insights into light-mediated signal transduction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98 (6): 2995–3000. Bibcode:2001PNAS...98.2995C. doi:10.1073/pnas.051520298. PMC 30595. PMID 11248020.
  • Genick, U. K.; Borgstahl, G. E.; Ng, K; Ren, Z; Pradervand, C; Burke, P. M.; Srajer, V; Teng, T. Y.; Schildkamp, W; McRee, D. E.; Moffat, K; Getzoff, E. D. (1997). "Structure of a Protein Photocycle Intermediate by Millisecond Time-Resolved Crystallography". Science. 275 (5305): 1471–5. doi:10.1126/science.275.5305.1471. PMID 9045611.
  • Crosson, Sean; Rajagopal, Sudarshan; Moffat, Keith (2003). "The LOV Domain Family: Photoresponsive Signaling Modules Coupled to Diverse Output Domains†". Biochemistry. 42 (1): 2–10. doi:10.1021/bi026978l. PMID 12515534.
  • Crosson, S.; Moffat, Keith (2002). "Photoexcited Structure of a Plant Photoreceptor Domain Reveals a Light-Driven Molecular Switch". The Plant Cell Online. 14 (5): 1067–1075. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.323.5750. doi:10.1105/tpc.010475.

See also

References
  1. "Keith Moffat's Profile on Academic Tree".
  2. Krebs, Werner G. (1996). Kinetic Analysis and Intermediate Structure Determination from High-Speed Time-Resolved Crystallography (MS thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 923013077.
  3. "John Moffat | The University of Edinburgh". www.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  4. "University of Chicago names Deputy Provost for Research". www-news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  5. "Moffat Appointed Senior Advisor for Life Sciences at the APS". www.aps.anl.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  6. "The Faculty | Chicago Biophysics | University of Chicago". biophysics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  7. "Distinguished faculty receive endowed chairs". chronicle.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  8. "Keith Moffat on LinkedIn".
  9. "Bright Ideas | The Scientist Magazine®". The Scientist. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
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