Last updated: 09/08/2008 02:15:42 PM -0700

Katherine A. Kantardjieff

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Director, W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure

McCarthy Hall 59

(714) 278-3752

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Fall 2008 Office Hours

MW 3 - 4p (MH-59)

Th 8p - 10p (online using iLinc MeetingLinc/join link required)

 Fall 2008 Course Information

Chemistry 543: Physical Biochemistry is located here, with additional materials at http://www.collegebrain.net (registration required)Class begins August 25 and some classes, including the first three will be conducted remotely using MeetingLinc (join link required). Please see Dr. Kantardjieff about this BEFORE August 15.

Chemistry 390: Career Options in Chemistry. Updated syllabus will be emailed periodically, along with assignments and any handouts. These will be linked here on a need to know basis.

Spring 2008 Course Information

Chemistry 410A: Introduction to Computational Biochemistry is located at http://www.collegebrain.net (registration required). Session begins February 25. Classes will be conducted synchronously on campus and remotely using MeetingLinc.

Chemistry 410B: Advanced Computational Biochemistry is located at http://www.collegebrain.net (registration required). Session begins April 7. Classes will be conducted synchronously on campus and remotely using MeetingLinc.

If you have questions about accessing course websites or blended learning environments using iLinc™, please email Professor Kantardjieff.

Professor Kantardjieff is Director of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure, a biophysical chemist and crystallographer. She is also the Faculty Coordinator for Academic Technology at CSU Fullerton. Professor Kantardjieff completed B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Biology at USC (1979), a M.S. in Chemistry (1984), a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1988) at UCLA, where she was a Gold Shield Distinguished Scholar, and postdoctoral studies in structural biology at UCLA. Professor Kantardjieff has been Principle Investigator or Co-PI on more than $2.3M in grants from Research Corporation, NSF and the State of California. She has supervised more than 170 undergraduate research students and sixteen Masters' students. A more than a dozen high school interns have also participated in research, several going on to win state and national science competitions, as well as co-author peer-reviewed publications in the primary literature.

In 1995, she was named a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Scholar. In 1996, she was recognized as a Teacher/Scholar by CSUF, and in 1998, 2001, and 2004  the University recognized her for "Creative and Scholarly Activity". In 2003, Professor Kantardjieff was the recipient of the College of Natural Science and Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Award and, in 2006 and 2007, she was nominated for the College's Outstanding Research Award. In 2008, Kantardjieff was named one of 14 national Campus Technology Innovators.

Professor Kantardjieff has served on the Executive Committee of the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society, where she was Chair of the Women Chemists' Committee from 1996-1999. She is past president and secretary of the UCLA Association of Chemists and Biochemists, and a member of the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Advisory Council. Professor Kantardjieff  has chaired the Education Subcommittee of  the United States National Committee for Crystallography,  she is the current USNC/Cr Vice Chair , and will become its chair in January 2009. She has served on the American Crystallographic Association Continuing Education Committee, is a member-consultant of the International Union of Crystallography Teaching Commission, and is the ACA Liaison to the American Institute of Physics Committee on Education. Kantardjieff is a member of the SSRL Users’ Organization Executive Committee 2008-2011), she is Co-Chair of the National Synchrotron and Neutron Users Group (SNUG), and she was recently appointed as a member of the steering committee of NUFO (National User Facility Organization). In 2005, Kantardjieff  represented the United States as a delegate to the IUCr Congress and General Assembly in Florence, Italy, and she will again represent the US at the 2008 IUCr Congress and General Assembly in Osaka, Japan.

"My experimental research interests are in the determination of both small and macromolecular structure, primarily by single crystal x-ray diffraction methods. My laboratory uses computational and informatic approaches, including homology modeling and simulated docking, to understand protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions and apply structural knowledge to drug design and to protein engineering. We also uses bioinformatics and statistics to analyze data generated by structural genomics projects and put this information into predictive frameworks. Molecules being studied in my laboratory include : 1) tuberculosis proteins that represent novel targets for antimycobacterial drugs;  2)  cytochromes from photosynthetic bacteria that may be used as biosensors; 3) enzymes for synthetic advantage; 4) enzymes implicated in antibiotic resistance; 5) bacterial toxins. I am also interested in the history of women in science, the development of computer technologies as both research and education tools for learning and communicating chemistry, and using end-to-end cyberinfrastructure and the Internet for remote-enabling instrumentation. Our latest project is called PRISSM."

Kantardjieff led the team of faculty who developed the University's Certificate Program in Bioinformatics and a pending Minor in Bioinformatics, and she co-leads, with Spiros Courellis (CSUF-CPSC), a team of faculty across several CSU campuses to develop a distributed computing resource, the "grand grid", G2.

"I am first generation Bulgarian, born and raised in Los Angeles. My hobbies include Bulgarian folk dancing (I danced with "Kitka" for five years), running (10Ks and half marathons mostly), x-c skiing (Coldwater at Tamarack is a favorite trail), cooking (I have been a vegetarian for 34 years), fine dining (Fog City Diner in SF is a favorite restaurant), sampling California wines, photography, and listening to jazz (the Playboy Jazz Festival is a tradition). Although I am passionate about my research and my teaching, and you will often find me working late in the lab (in vitro or in silico), I am also an avid fan of sports, particularly football (UCLA, USC, 49ers), baseball (Dodgers, Angels), and ice hockey (LA Kings and Mighty Ducks)."

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