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| name = Carlos Bustamante
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| caption = Carlos Bustamante
| birth_date = [[1951]]
| birth_place = [[Lima]], [[Peru]]
| residence = [[United States|U.S.]]
| nationality = [[United States|U.S.]]
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| field = [[Biophysics]]
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| work_institution = [[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]]
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| website = [http://alice.berkeley.edu/ Home Page]
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'''Carlos José Bustamante''' (born [[1951]] in [[Lima]], [[Peru]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[scientist]]. He is a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].
==Biography==
Bustamante is [[professor]] of [[Molecular biology|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]].
==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.
==Positions==
* Research Assistant, [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] (1976-1981)
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] (1981-1982)
* Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, [[University of New Mexico]] (1982-1986)
* Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, [[University of New Mexico]] (1986-1989)
* 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]] (1991-1998)
* Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] (1998-present)
==Fellowships and Awards==
* Kellogg Foundation scholarship during the Master in Biochemistry (1973-1975)
* [[Fullbright Commission]] and [[Institute of International Education]] Fellow (1975-1976)
* [[Abraham Rosenberg]] scholarship, UC Berkeley (1975-1976)
* [[Searle Scholar]] (1984)
* [[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation]] Fellow (1985)
* Presidential Lecturer in Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986)
* State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar (1989)
* 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)
==External links==
* [http://www.pucp.edu.pe/south/monteverde.htm Bustamante won the Southern Peru 2004 Award]
* [http://alice.berkeley.edu/ The Bustamante Lab Home Page at University of California, Berkeley]
*[http://chem.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/bustamante/bustamante.html Carlos Bustamantes's Deparment of Chemistry Faculty Home Page, University of California at Berkeley]
* [http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/bustamante_bio.html Carlos Bustamante at Howard Hughes Medical Institute]
* [http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/science.medicine/pro.cbustamante.html Protein Wizard: America's Best Science & Medicine CNN/Time]
* [http://www.unmsm.edu.pe San Marcos University]
* [http://www.upch.edu.pe Cayetano Heredia University]
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