Research University

Curriculum Vitae

Shu-ou Shan, Ph.D.

Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

California Institute of Technology, MC 147-75

Pasadena, CA 91125

Phone: 626-***-****

e-mail: *****@*******.***

Education:

1991-1994 University of Maryland B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry

1994-2000 Stanford University Ph.D. in Biochemistry

Positions and experience:

1991-1994 Undergraduate research with Dr. R. N. Armstrong, University of Maryland;

Substrate specificity in Glutathione-S-Transferase.

1994-2000 Doctoral research with Dr. Daniel Herschlag, Stanford University;

(1) Energetics of hydrogen bonds in model systems and

implications for enzymatic catalysis;

(2) The role of metal ions in catalysis of RNA enzymes.

2000-2005 Post-doctoral research with Dr. Peter Walter, U.C. San Francisco

Mechanism of Signal Recognition Particle-dependent protein transport

2005-2011Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

2011-presentProfessor, California Institute of Technology

Honors/Awards

1992 CRC Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award

1998-1999 Lieberman Fellowship for Graduate Research

1999 Charles Yanofsky Graduate Research Award

2000-2003 Cancer Research Fund Fellowship, Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation

2000 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellowship (declined)

2003-2008 Career Award in Biomedical Sciences, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

2005-2008 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

2007-2010 Beckman Young Investigator Award, Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation

2007-2012 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for science and engineering2008 Woman in Cell Biology junior award, American Society of Cell Biology

2009 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award

2011 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award, the Protein Society

2012 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education, American Chemical

Society

Publications (*denotes the corresponding author)

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Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S.

A. 96, 122**-*****. "Three Metal Ions at the Active Site of the Tetrahymena Group I

Ribozyme".

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Biochemistry 31,

101**-*****. "Modular Mutagenesis of Exons 1, 2, and 8 of a Glutathione S-Transferase

from the

Mu Class: Mechanistic and Structural Consequences from Chimeras of Isoenzyme 3-3". PMID:

1420140

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