Carlos Bustamante 1217994 200022826 2008-03-22T07:10:22Z Icewedge 2469121 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 200022620 by [[Special:Contributions/68.149.9.184|68.149.9.184]] ([[User talk:68.149.9.184|talk]]); appears to be incorrect information. {{Infobox_Scientist | name = Carlos Bustamante <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: | image = CarlosBustamante.jpg|300px --> | caption = Carlos Bustamante | birth_date = [[1951]] | birth_place = [[Lima]], [[Peru]] | residence = [[United States|U.S.]] | nationality = [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = | death_place = | field = [[Biophysics]] | erdos_number = | work_institution = [[University of California, Berkeley]] | alma_mater = [[Cayetano Heredia University]], [[University of California, Berkeley]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = Biophysics of [[DNA]] and [[protein]] | societies = Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] | prizes = | spouse = | children = | religion = | handedness = | website = [http://alice.berkeley.edu/ Home Page] | footnotes = }} '''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] <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] --> {{Persondata |NAME= Bustamante, Carlos |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= |SHORT DESCRIPTION=[[United States|American]] biophysicist |DATE OF BIRTH= [[1951]] |PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Lima]], [[Peru]] |DATE OF DEATH= |PLACE OF DEATH= }} {{DEFAULTSORT: Bustamante, Carlos}} [[Category:1951 births|Bustamante, Carlos]] [[Category:Members of the National Academy of Sciences]] [[Category:Living people|Bustamante, Carlos]] [[Category:People from Lima|Bustamante, Carlos]] [[Category:Peruvian chemists|Bustamante, Carlos]] [[Category:Howard Hughes Medical Investigators|Bustamante, Carlos]] [[Category:University of Oregon faculty|Bustamante, Carlos]] [[Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society]]