Assistant Medical

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background

National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Biology,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1999-2002)

Research Advisor: Professor Christopher T. Walsh

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (1994-1999)

Ph.D. Dissertation Title: The Mechanistic Study and Synthetic Use of Carbohydrate

Modifying

Enzymes

Research Advisor: Prof. Chi-Huey Wong

B.A. in Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX (1990-1994)

Research Advisors: Prof. George J. Schroepfer and Prof. Kenton H. Whitmire

Professional Experience

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Assistant Professor of Chemistry (2002-2008

)

Associate Professor of Chemistry (2008- present

)

Associate Director, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology (2010- present

)

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2002

)

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Graduate Researcher (1995-1999

)

Rice University, Houston, TX

Undergraduate Research Assistant (1994-1995

)

Professor George J. Schroepfer, Research AdvisorInstituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), San JosE, Costa Rica

Undergraduate Research Assistant (1993

)

Professor Giselle Tamayo, Research AdvisorRice University, Houston, TX

Undergraduate Research Assistant (1991-1993)

Professor Kenton H. Whitmire, Research Advisor

Research Interests

The Burkart laboratory in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University

of

California, San Diego, pursues interdisciplinary research in the fields of bioorganic /

synthetic organic

chemistry and chemical biology.

Michael D. Burkart

Honors and Awards

NIH EUREKA Award (2010)

OBC Lecture Award (Royal Society of Chemistry (2010)

Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2007)

American Cancer Society Research Scholar (2006)

Invited Speaker, Bioorganic Gordon Conference (Oxford, UK, 2006)

Hellman Fellow (2004)

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004)

New Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease, Ellison Medical Foundation (2003)

United States Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (co-recipient) (2000)

NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-2000)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship (1998)

Zevi & Bertha Salsburg Award for Excellence in Chemistry, Rice University (1994)

National Science Foundation Undergraduate Researcher (1991)

Publications

Gramicidin S Synthetase. J.

Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 112**-*****.

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Michael D. Burkart

sugar nucleotide: useful mechanistic Probes for glycosyltransferases. Bioorg. Med. Chem.

2000, 8, 1937-1946.

9. Burkart MD, Wong C H. A Continuous Assay for the Spectrophotometric A nalysis of

Sulfotransferases Using

Aryl Sulfotransferase IV. Anal. Biochem. 1999, 274, 137-137.

8. Burkart MD, Izumi M, Wong C-H. Enzymatic Regeneration of 3 -Phosphoadenosine-5 -

Phosphosulfate (PAPS)

Using Aryl Sulfotransferase for the Preparative Enzymat ic Synthesis of Sulfated

Carbohydrates. Angew. Chem. Int.

Ed. 1999, 38, 2747-2750.

7. Vincent SP, Burkart MD, Tsai C Y, Zhang Z, Wong C-H. Electrophilic Fluorination -

Nucleophilic Addition

Reaction Mediated by Selectfluor : Mechanistic Studies and New Appli cations J. Org.

Chem. 1999, 64, 5264-5279.

6. Burkart MD, Vincent SP, Wong C H. An Efficient Synthesis of CMP -3-fluoro-neuraminic

Acid Chem. Comm.

1999, 1525-1526.

5. Burkart MD, Zhang Z, Hung S-C, Wong C-H. A New Method for the Synthesis of Fluoro -

Carbohydrates and

Glycosides Using Selectfluor J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 117**-*****.

4. Murray BW, Wittmann V, Burkart MD, Hung S-C, Wong C-H Mechanism of Human a-13-

Fucosyltransferase V:

Glycosidic Cleavage OccursPrior to Nucleophilic Attack. Biochemistry 1997, 36, 823-831.

3. Jones CM, Burkart MD, Bachman RE, Serra DL, Hwu SJ, Whitmire KH, Hypervalent Bismuth

Alkoxide Dimer

Complexes: Synthesis, Structures and Thermal Decompositions of [Bi(OCH(CF OCH(CF

))(THF)], and

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[Bi(OC F OCF)X] zY (X = Y = C H, n = 1, z = 1 or 2; X = THF, Y = C H, n = 2, z = 0

or 1). Inorg.

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Chem. 1993, 32, 5136-5144.

2. Jones CM, Burkart MD, Whitmire KH, Bismuth Alkoxide Dimer Complexes Containing Planar

Bi (?-OR) Cores:

2 2

Syntheses and Structures of [{Bi[OCH(CF )](thf)} ] and [{Bi[OC F](toluene)} ]. Angew.

Chem. Int. Ed. Eng.

32326532

1992, 31, 451-452.

1. Jones CM, Burkart MD, Whitmire KH, Novel Aryloxybismuthoxide Clusters: X-ray Crystal

Structures of Bi (?3-

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O)(?3-OCF){Bi(OC F)}(thf) and Bi (?-O OCF){Bi(OCF)}3.2C H J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.

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1992, 1638-1639.

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