Willy R. Wriggers
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- 1991 Vordiplom, Physics, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, Universität Regensburg, Germany.
- 1994 M.S. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 1998 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Awards
- 1991-1994 Predoctoral Fellowship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany.
- 1992-1993 Study Abroad Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany.
- 1998-1999 Postdoctoral Fellowship, La Jolla Interfaces in Science Program, sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
- 2001-2006 Research Grant Nr. 1R01GM62968-01, National Institutes of Health, ranked at 1.8 percentile.
- 2001 Journal of Structural Biology, Paper of the Year Award for JSB 125:185-195.
- 2003-2007 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology. [News Release]
- 2003-2007 Research Grant Nr. RGP0026/2003 Human Frontier Science Program ranked 7th out of 549 (22 funded).
- 2004 John P. McGovern Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
- 2006-2010 Research Grant Nr. 2R01GM62968-06, National Institutes of Health, ranked at 0.9 percentile.
- 2007 John P. McGovern Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Positions
- 1993-1997: Research Assistant, Theoretical Biophysics Group of Dr. Klaus Schulten, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 1997-1999: Postdoctoral Research Chemist in the research group of Dr. J. Andrew McCammon, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego.
- 1998-1999: Research Associate in the laboratory of Dr. Ronald A. Milligan, Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute.
- 1999-2003: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute.
- 2003-2006: Assistant Professor, School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
- 2006-2007: Associate Professor, School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
- 2003-2007: Adjunct Faculty, Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
- 2003-2007: Adjunct Faculty, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston.
- 2003-2007: Adjunct Faculty, The W. M. Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology, Rice U.
- 2004-2007: Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Ph.D. Program in Structural Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine.
- 2004-2007: Adjunct Faculty, Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program.
Review Service
Editor
Reviewer
- Biochemistry
- Biophysical Journal
- Biopolymers
- BMC Structural Biology
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
- Journal of Molecular Biology
- Journal of Physical Chemistry
- Journal of Structural Biology
- Microscopy Research and Technique
- Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, USA
- Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics
- Structure
- Ultramicroscopy
- Academic Press (book proposal)
- National Institutes of Health (grant)
- National Science Foundation (grant)
- University of Houston GEAR Program (grant)
- American Chemical Society / Petroleum Research Fund (grant)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (grant)
- Research Corporation (grant)
- The Wellcome Trust (grant)
Membership
- Biophysical Society (since 1993)
- IEEE Computer Society (since 2001)
- American Crystallographic Association (since 2002)
- Microscopy Society of America (since 2003)
- American Chemical Society (since 2003)
Research Projects
Presentations
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