Dan Kraut(1995)
College/Degrees
Swarthmore College ’00 (BA in Biochemistry)
Stanford University ’06 (Ph.D. in Biochemistry)
Employer/Job Title
Postdoc, Andreas Matouschek’s Lab, Department of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology & Cell Biology
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Accomplishments
HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship ,
Numerous publications in Biology and Chemistry Journals including:
CHALLENGES IN ENZYME MECHANISM AND ENERGETICS Daniel A. Kraut, Kate S. Carroll, and Daniel Herschlag Annual
Review of Biochemistry Vol. 72: 517-571
Inactivation Studies of Acetylcholinesterase with Phenylmethylsulfonyl Fluoride. Daniel Kraut, Heather Goff, Reetesh K. Pai, Natilie A.
Hosea, Israel Silman, Joel L. Sussman, Palmer Taylor, and Judith G. Voet. Molecular Pharmachology Vol. 57, Issue 6, 1243-1248, June
2000
Kraut DA, Sigala PA, Pybus B, Liu CW, Ringe D, et al. (2006) Testing Electrostatic Complementarity in Enzyme Catalysis: Hydrogen
Bonding in the Ketosteroid Isomerase Oxyanion Hole. PLoS Biol 4(4): e99
To degrade or release: ubiquitin-chain remodeling. Daniel A. Kraut, Sumit Prakash and Andreas Matouschek, Trends in Cell Biology,
Volume 17, Issue 9, September 2007, Pages 419-421
Testimonial
PGSS helped me get into college, and gave me the experience to know that I wanted to do research. That led me to do research every summer of college, including after my freshman year, and ultimately to pursue a career in science.