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Dr. David E. Graham
David Graham received his A.B. degree in Biology and Economics
from Cornell University
in 1995. Forsaking economics, he entered graduate school in
the Department of
Microbiology at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was awarded a Ph.D.
in 2000. His graduate research (working with Drs. Gary
Olsen and Carl
Woese) explored the evolution of archaea and highly diverged
bacteria through computational genome analysis and biochemical
studies on tRNA methylating enzymes. As a postdoctoral researcher
at Virginia Tech, David worked
with Dr. Robert
White, using bioinformatics and biochemical approaches
to identify and characterize several enzymes involved in coenzyme
biosynthesis. As an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Biology,
David studied these biosynthetic enzymes from a methane gas-producing
marine microorganism, Methanococcus jannaschii, which
was isolated from oceanic hydrothermal vent fluid and grows
anaerobically, at 85 ºC. He is currently an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry at The
University of Texas at Austin and is a Fellow at the Institute
for Cellular and Molecular Biology at UT-Austin. |
