Biography:Patricia Babbitt

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Short description: American pharmaceutical chemist
Patricia Babbitt
Born
Patricia Clement Babbitt
EducationUniversity of California, San Francisco (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2018)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics[2]
Computational biology[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
ThesisSequence determination, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of creatine kinase (1988)
Doctoral advisorGeorge L. Kenyon[3]
Irwin "Tack" Kuntz[3]
Websiteprofiles.ucsf.edu/patricia.babbitt

Patricia Clement Babbitt is a Professor and Principal Investigator (PI) in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[2][4][5][6][7] She was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.[1] She is the Director of the UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics Graduate Program and serves on Advisory Boards for the UniProt Database, the Metacyc Metabolic Pathway Database, the HHMI Scientific Review Board, and as a Deputy Editor for PLoS Computational Biology.[8]

Education

Patricia Babbitt earned a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1988 from the University of California, San Francisco.[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". International Society for Computational Biology. https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Babbit, Patricia Clement (1988). Sequence determination, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of creatine kinase (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 19528718. ProQuest 303714424. (Subscription content?)
  4. "Patricia Babbitt - UCSF Profiles". http://profiles.ucsf.edu/patricia.babbitt. 
  5. "Babbitt Lab Website". http://babbittlab.ucsf.edu/. 
  6. Gerlt, John A.; Babbitt, Patricia C. (2001). "Divergent Evolution of Enzymatic Function: Mechanistically Diverse Superfamilies and Functionally Distinct Suprafamilies". Annual Review of Biochemistry 70 (1): 209–246. doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.70.1.209. ISSN 0066-4154. PMID 11395407.  closed access
  7. Radivojac, Predrag; Clark, Wyatt T; Oron, Tal Ronnen; Schnoes, Alexandra M; Wittkop, Tobias; Sokolov, Artem; Graim, Kiley; Funk, Christopher et al. (2013). "A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction". Nature Methods 10 (3): 221–227. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2340. ISSN 1548-7091. PMID 23353650.  open access
  8. "CMNS Distinguished Woman Faculty Lecture". https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/events/3444. 
  9. "Patricia Babbett, PhD". https://profiles.ucsf.edu/patricia.babbitt#toc-id1.