JOHANN DEISENHOFER
curriculum vitae

Address: 		Howard Hughes Medical Institute
			and Department of Biochemistry
			The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
			6001 Forest Park Road, ND10.502
			Dallas, Texas 75390-9050, U.S.A.

Phone: 		(214) 645 5941
Fax:			(214) 645 5939
E-mail			johann.deisenhofer@UTSouthwestern.edu
 
Date of birth:		September 30, 1943
 
Place of birth: 	Zusamaltheim, Bavaria, Germany
 
Citizenship: 		U.S.A. and Federal Republic of Germany 

Marital status:	married to Kirsten Fischer Lindahl, Ph.D.
 
Education: 		Diplom (equiv. to masters degree) in Physics, 1971, 						Technical University Munich
 
			Dr. rer. nat. (equiv. to Ph. D.) in Experimental Physics, 1974,
			Technical University Munich

			Habilitation in Experimental Physics, 1987,
			Technical University Munich
			
Major research interests:
			protein crystallography
			structure and function of biological macromolecules						computational biology

Research and professional experience:
 
 1.	1970-1971: Diplom student, Department of Physics, 
	Technical University Munich.
	thesis: Detection of terahertz-phonons in ruby at 4 K.
	thesis advisor: Klaus Dransfeld
 
 2.	1971-1974: Ph.D. student, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry,
	thesis: Structure refinement of the Basic Pancreatic Trypsin
	Inhibitor (BPTI) at 1.5 Å resolution.
	thesis advisor: Robert Huber

 3.	1974 -1976: Research Associate 
	1976-1988: Staff Scientist 
Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry.
 
 4.	1988 - present: 
	Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

	Regental Professor and Professor in Biochemistry, 
	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

	1989 - present: 
Virginia and Edward Linthicum Distinguished Chair in Biomolecular Science
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Current Memberships:

Academia Europaea 
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina 
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Texas Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Federation of American Scientists (Sponsor)
World Innovation Foundation (Honorary Member)

American Crystallographic Association
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biophysical Society
German Biophysical Society
German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Protein Society
Sigma Xi

Awards: 

	1986 Biological Physics Price of the American Physical Society 	
	(shared with H. Michel)
	
	Otto-Bayer-Preis 1988 (shared with H. Michel)
	
	1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with R. Huber and H. Michel)

Honors:

The Knight Commander's Cross (Batch and Star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1990)

Bavarian Order of Merit (1992)

D. Sc. h.c., Drury College, Springfield, Missouri (1993)

Kentucky Colonel (1995)

D. Sc. h.c., Burdwan University, West Bengal, India (1996)

Röntgen-Plaquette 2004 (City of Remscheid, Germany, birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen)

Publications Sept 2006-now

1.	Y. Huang, R. Baxter, B. S. Smith et al., Crystal structure of cryptochrome 3 from Arabidopsis thaliana and its implications for photolyase activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 (47), 17701 (2006).

2.	A. D. Ferguson, C. A. Amezcua, N. M. Halabi et al., Signal transduction pathway of TonB-dependent transporters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (2), 513 (2007).

3.	Chang, C. I., and J. Deisenhofer. 2007. The peptidoglycan recognition proteins LCa and LCx. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 64:1395-1402.

4.	Baxter, R. H., C. I. Chang, Y. Chelliah, S. Blandin, E. A. Levashina, and J. Deisenhofer. 2007. Structural basis for conserved complement factor-like function in the antimalarial protein TEP1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:11615-11620.

Funding

HHMI
Welch Foundation

Teaching and service

UTSW:

Endowed Scholars local committee
IIMT committee
6-year plan committee on research
Thesis committees

Outside:

Track II editor for PNAS
Reviewer for multiple journals
Reviewer for the Advanced Photon Source General User Program
TAMEST Research Committee

Students and Postdocs who left my lab between September 1, 2006, and now:

None