Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante
Born	1951 Lima, Peru
Residence	USA
Nationality	USA
Field	Biophysics
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Institution	University of Oregon,University of California, Berkeley
Alma Mater	Cayetano Heredia University, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral Advisor	Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.
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Known for	Biophysics of DNA and protein
Societies	Fellow of the American Physical Society
Website: Home Page

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Biography

Bustamante is professor of molecular and cell biology, physics, and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1998. He received his B.S. degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, his masters in biochemistry from San Marcos University, and his Ph.D. degree in biophysics from UC Berkeley, where he studied with Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bustamante studied with Marc Maestre. Before moving to Berkeley, he was an HHMI investigator at the University of Oregon. A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... The first few hydrogen atom electron orbitals shown as cross-sections with color-coded probability density. ... Chemistry (derived from alchemy) is the science of matter at or near the atomic scale. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... Cayetano Heredia University (Spanish: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia or UPCH) is a private university located in Lima, Peru. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... National University of San Marcos or University of Saint Mark [1](Spanish: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), or simply San Marcos) is a public university in Lima, Peru. ... Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physical sciences, especially those of physics, to questions of biology. ... The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ... The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is a United States non-profit medical research institute based in Chevy Chase, Maryland and originally founded by the aviator and engineer Howard Hughes in 1953. ... The University of Oregon (UO) is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. ...

Research focus

Carlos Bustamante uses novel methods of single-molecule visualization, such as scanning force microscopy, to study the structure and function of nucleoprotein assemblies. His laboratory is developing methods of single-molecule manipulation, such as optical tweezers, to characterize the elasticity of DNA, to induce the mechanical unfolding of individual protein molecules, and to investigate the machine-like behavior of molecular motors. One single-molecule, an individual molecule that can be isolated or distinguished for propose of an experiment or analysis. ... Visualization can refer to: Graphic Visualization as in any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. ... A nucleoprotein is any protein which is structurally associated with nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA). ... Optical tweezers make use of a laser beam to provide an attractive force (in the range of piconewtons to femtonewtons) to physically move microscopic objects (on the order of nanometers to tens of micrometers in diameter) with high precision. ... The general structure of a section of DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid —usually in the form of a double helix— that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life, and most viruses. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ... In science, a molecule is the smallest particle of a pure chemical substance that still retains its chemical composition and properties. ...

Awards and positions

• Kellogg Foundation scholarship during the Master in Biochemistry (1973-1975)
• Fullbright Commission
• Institute of International Education Fellow (1975-1976)
• Abraham Rosenberg scholarship, UC, Berkeley (1975-1976)
• Research Assistant, UC Berkeley (1976-1981)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC Berkeley (1981-1982)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1982-1986)
• Searle Scholar (1984)
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1985)
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986-1989)
• Presidential Lecturer in Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986)
• State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar (1989)
• Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1989-1990)
• Professor of Chemistry and Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (1991-1998)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, (1994-1998, 2000)
• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)
• Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program (1997-2000)

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External links

• Bustamante won the Southern Peru 2004 Award
• The Bustamante Lab Home Page at University of California, Berkeley
• Carlos Bustamantes's Deparment of Chemistry Faculty Home Page, University of California at Berkeley
• Carlos Bustamante at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Protein Wizard: America's Best Science & Medicine CNN/Time
• San Marcos University
• Cayetano Heredia University