Friday, 05 September, 2014

Welcome!

Dr. Michael Nash joins CeNS as Extraordinary Member

 

Dr. Michael A. Nash earned a B.S. in Cybernetics with a specialization in biomedical systems, graduating with highest honors from the University of California Los Angeles in 2006. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington Seattle in 2010. After receiving postdoctoral training at the Chair for Applied Biophysics at LMU from 20112013, Dr. Nash began an independent research group in May 2013. Dr. Nash has received national and international fellowship awards from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and from the Branco Weiss Society in Science foundation based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich). His research group is based in the broad area of biological nanomaterials, and is currently focused on elucidating sequence-structure-function relationships within cellulosomes, the multi-component protein networks used by anaerobic bacteria for biomass energy conversion. 

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