Last updated:
05/06/2009 07:10:37 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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Spring 2009 Course Information
Chemistry 210: Computational Tools for the
Chemical Sciences is the 1-unit introductory module to the computational
chemistry track in the department. It will be offered during the first
5-weeks of the spring term. Because the class enrollment is impacted, it
will be offered in a blended mode. This means some students will bring their own
laptop computer to the computer classroom, while others will participate
synchronously online from a remote location.
Chemistry 410A: Introduction to
Computational Biochemistry/Computational Genomics is the upper division
1-unit module in the computational chemistry track required of all
biochemistry majors for the degree (Note: 410C is required of chemistry majors
for the degree - please see the undergraduate handbook). It will be offered the
second 5-weeks of the spring term. Because 410A is also
heavily impacted, it will be offered in a blended mode, as described for 210.

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blended learning environments using iLinc�, please email Professor Kantardjieff
or see her blog at
http://ilincusers.blogspot.com.
Biographical Sketch
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, NIH, W.M. Keck, Camille and Henry Dreyfus, The Boeing Company, 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. In
January 2009, Kantardjieff was honored with the
Andreoli Faculty Service Award, the highest honor for faculty given by the
California State University Program for Education in Research and Biology (CSUPERB).
The award honors a Cal State faculty member who has made outstanding
contributions to the development of biotechnology programs in the university
system. In Spring 2009, Kantardjieff was named Distinguished Faculty Member by
the College of National Science and Mathematics.
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, and she is now
the USNC/Cr
Chair. She has served on the American
Crystallographic Association Continuing Education Committee, is a
member of the International Union of
Crystallography Commission on Crystallographic Teaching, is Co-Editor of the
IUCr Journal of Applied Crystallography, and is the ACA Liaison to the
American Institute of Physics Committee on
Education. Kantardjieff is Vice Chair
of the SSRL Users' Organization Executive Committee,
and she a member of the NUFO
(National User Facility Organization) Steering Committee. In 2005
and 2008,
Kantardjieff represented the United States as a delegate to the IUCr Congress and
General Assembly in
Florence, Italy and Osaka, Japan respectively.
"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; 6) cholinesterases as
targets for Alzheimer's therapeutics. 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 in this area 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.
Kantardjieff Research Group Summer 2008
"I am first generation Bulgarian,
born and raised in Los Angeles. My hobbies include Bulgarian
folk dancing (I danced with "Kitka" for five years; check out a
great Balkan dance archive at Folk
with Dunav), running
(10Ks and half marathons mostly), x-c skiing (Coldwater at
Tamarack
is a favorite trail), cooking (I have been a vegetarian for
37 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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