Prof. James Williamson The Scripps Research Institute, USA

James R. Williamson is a Professor in the Departments of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, and is a member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Williamson received his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University in 1988, and following postdoctoral work... read moreat the University of Colorado, he joined the faculty in the Chemistry Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, where he attained the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 1997. Dr. Williamson moved to TSRI in 1998 as Professor, and in 2001 he became the Associate Dean for the Chemistry Program. Dr. Williamson's research involves the study of RNA structure, RNA-protein interactions and RNA-ligand interactions using biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology approaches.