B.A. Carleton College 1981; Ph.D. MIT 1989; Life Sciences Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (1989-92); American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow (1992-3); Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA (1993-2000); Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA (2000-04); Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry (2004-present); Vice Chair Chemistry & Biochemistry (2013-present); Protein Society Executive Council (2006-12); Protein Society President (20013-present); Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Biology (2006-), Biochemistry (2006-), Protein Science (2000-) and Proteins (1997-2005); Advisory Board Swedish Biomembrane Center (2005-10); Co-chair FASEB summer conference on Mol. Biophys. Cell. Membranes (2006&08);. Co-chair Gordon Conference on Proteins (2010&12); Co-chair of Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting on Membrane Protein folding (2013); Founder and co-chair of Gordon Conference of Membrane Protein Folding (2015); Member NIH BBM study section(2006-10)
Jim Bowie
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA-DOE Institute
Boyer Hall
611 Charles E. Young Dr. E
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1570
bowie@mbi.ucla.edu
(310) 206-4747
2012 Elected President of the Protein Society for 2013-14
2012 UCLA Society of Postdoctoral Scholars Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
2009 Dreyfus Foundation Postdoc Mentor in Envir. Chem.
2008 Re-elected to Protein Society Executive Council
2008 Elected Fellow of AAAS
2007 Elected Chair, 2009&11 Gordon Conference on Proteins
2006 Elected to the Protein Society Executive Council
2004 Elected Chair, 2006&8 FASEB Conference on Mol. Biophys. of Cell. Membranes
2001 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar
1998 McCoy Award in Chemistry
1994 NSF National Young Investigator
1994 Pew Scholar
1992 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
1989 Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
1981 Distinction in Chemistry, Carleton College
1981 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
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