Steven M. Block
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Natural Sciences Cluster - Applied Physics
- Professor, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
- Member, Bio-X
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Contact Information
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Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (elected 2007)
- Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 2000)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 2006)
- National Lecturer, Biophysical Society (2012)
- MERIT Award, NIH-NIGMS (2010-2015)
- Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics, American Physical Society (2008)
Professional Education
| PhD: | California Inst. of Technology, Biology (1983) |
| MA: | Univ. Colorado, Biology (1982) |
| MA: | Oxford University, UK, Physics (1978) |
| BA: | Oxford University, UK, Physics (1974) |
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Scientific Focus
Publications
- Binding and translocation of termination factor rho studied at the single-molecule level. J Mol Biol. 2012; (5): 664-76
- Direct observation of cotranscriptional folding in an adenine riboswitch. Science. 2012; (6105): 397-400
- A universal pathway for kinesin stepping. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2011; (9): 1020-7
- Applied force reveals mechanistic and energetic details of transcription termination. Cell. 2008; (6): 971-82
- Direct observation of hierarchical folding in single riboswitch aptamers. Science. 2008; (5863): 630-3
- Direct measurement of the full, sequence-dependent folding landscape of a nucleic acid. Science. 2006; (5801): 1001-4
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