16. The principle of translation
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Joachim Frank received his BS and Masters in physics at the University of Freiburg and University of Munich, respectively. He obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich. He received an appointment at the Wadsworth Center as a Senior Research Scientist and joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University at Albany. Dr. Frank is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a fellow of the AAAS and the Biophysical Society. In 2005 he gave the National Lecture at the Biophysical Society Meeting. Dr. Frank is known for his development of single-particle reconstruction methods to investigate the structure and dynamics of macromolecular assemblies and for applications of these methods in the study of ribosomal function, which has advanced the understanding of translation. In 2006, Dr. Frank was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy for Microbiology.