Biography:Michael F. Summers
Michael F. Summers | |
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| Alma mater | St. Petersburg Junior College University of West Florida Emory University |
| Awards | Emily M. Gray Award Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biophysics Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| Thesis | Studies of B12 Analogs and Models Containing Bis (dimethylglyoximato) and Bis (salicylidine)-o-phenylenediamine as Equatorial Ligands (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Luigi Marzilli |
| Other academic advisors | Ad Bax |
Education and early life
Michael F. Summers earned his A.A. degree from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1978, and then a B.S. in chemistry from the University of West Florida in 1980. He then earned his Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from Emory University in 1984.[1]
Career and research
From 1984 to 1987, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH under Dr. Adrian Bax.[2][1][3] Since 1987, he has been a UMBC Faculty member.
His career has focused on using structural approaches to studying protein, RNA, and macromolecular interactions with HIV-1 genome packaging and virus assembly.[4][1] He is particularly well known for using NMR. He has also been a major proponent for retaining minority students in the sciences through undergraduate involvement in research as well as involvement with the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.[4][5][6] He is also involved with adapting the Meyerhoff Scholars program at other schools with HHMI such as Penn State and UNC.[7]
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs named:1 - ↑ "Lab Members - Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Section - NIDDK" (in en-US). https://www.niddk.nih.gov/research-funding/at-niddk/labs-branches/laboratory-chemical-physics/biophysical-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-spectroscopy-section/members.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Howard Hughes Medical Institute @ UMBC". http://www.hhmi.umbc.edu.
- ↑ "Q&A: Dr. Michael Summers On The Meyerhoff Scholars Program - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County" (in en-US). 2019-06-07. https://umbc.edu/stories/qa-dr-michael-summers-on-the-meyerhoff-scholars-program/.
- ↑ "History" (in en-US). https://meyerhoff.umbc.edu/about/history/.
- ↑ "A vaunted program for boosting the diversity of U.S. academic scientists is starting to spread" (in en). https://www.science.org/content/article/vaunted-program-boosting-diversity-us-academic-scientists-starting-spread.
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