BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

PERSONAL

Katherine Ann Kantardjieff, Ph.D., M.S.

09.29.1957, Los Angeles, CA, USA

POSITION TITLE                  

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fullerton

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR(S)

FIELD OF STUDY

University of Southern California

B.S.

1979

Chemistry/Biology

University of California Los Angeles

M.S.

1984

Physical Chemistry

University of California Los Angeles

Ph.D.

1988

Physical Chemistry

University of California Los Angeles

Post-doc

1988-1989

Structural Biology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

YEAR(S)

POSITION

1977-1979

Animal keeper, Los Angeles Zoo

1979-1980

Mathematics instructor, Immaculate Heart High School

1980-1982

Chairman of Science Department, Daniel Murphy High School

1980-1982

Instructor, Daniel Murphy High School, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, General Science

1982-1983

Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

1983-1984

Teaching Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

1984-1985

Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

1986-1988

Lecturer and Facilitator, PDP-MEP, UCLA

1988-1989

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

1989-1995

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fullerton

1992-present

Director, W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure, California State University

1995

Visiting Scientist, Birkbeck College, University of London

1995-present

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fullerton

1997-1998

Visiting Associate in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

1998-present

Participating Guest, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

1999

Professor, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fullerton

1999; 2001

AWU Faculty Fellow/Research Associate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2002-2003

Consulting Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University

OTHER EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/SERVICE

YEAR(S)

POSITION

1996-2001

ACS, So. Cal. Executive Committee; Chair Women Chemists Subcommittee

1999-present

Governing Board/Faculty Consensus Group, CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotecnnology

2000-present

Advisory Board, Cerrificate Program, CSU Fullerton

2000-present

Ad hoc study section panel reviewer NSF, NIH, PRF; Research Corporation, CSUPERB

2002-present

Ad hoc reviewer: Prot Sci, J Biol Chem, J Bacteriol, J Chem Ed, Chem Educ, J Chem Cryst, J Appl Cryst, Acta Crystallogr C,D, Bioorg Med Chem; Cell Biochem Biophys

2000-2006

United States National Committee for Crystallography; Chair. Education Subcommittee (NAS/NRC)

2002-2004

CSU/UC Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project

2003-2009

International Union of Crystallography Teaching Commission Member Consultant

2002;2004

Instructor, EMBL PEPC3,4 Courses

2003-2006

Continuing Education Committee, American Crystallographic Association

2004-present

Editorial Board, J Chem Cryst, Kluwer Publishing

2005

US delegate to the International Union of Crystallography Congress and General Assembly, Florence

2006-2009

Co-Editor J Appl Cryst, Teaching and Education

2006-2009

Vice Chair United States National Committee for Crystallography (NAS/NRC)

2009-2012

Chair, United States National Committee for Crystallography(NAS/NRC)

HONORS AND AWARDS

1996,1998, 2002,2004

Scholarly and Creative Activity Recognition, CSU Fullerton

1997

Women in Technology Hall of Fame, Nomination

2000

Fankuchen Memorial Award, American Crystallographic Association, Nomination

2003

Outstanding Teaching Award, CSU Fullerton College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

APPLICABLE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton; founded and direct The W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure, a core facility of the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology; biomolecular and small molecule crystallography; crystal structures of bacterial toxins, apoplipoproteins, cytochromes, TB drug targets; comparative modeling, simulated protein-ligand docking, virtual screening, simulated protein-protein docking; computational biochemistry; informatics and statistics; structural bioinformatics; structural genomics; structure-guided drug design; spectroscopy, DLS, CD, FA, FRET.

APPLICABLE TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory, Physical Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory, Biophysical Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory, Computational Chemistry, Computational Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Chemical Crystallography Lecture and Laboratory, Macromolecular Crystallography Lecture and Laboratory, Drug Design, Scientific Writing, Science Ethics, Intellectual Property; development and implementation of assessment tools; development of curriculum for regional CSU applied biotechnology masters' degree program

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