Profile
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OrganizationBiosciences Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Biography
Hasan DeMirci is a member of the Biosciences Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and also affiliated with Non-Periodic Imaging group at Stanford PULSE Institute. He completed his B.S. at Bosphorus University in 2002 and later obtained a Ph.D., in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University in 2007. His research focuses on i) structural studies of bacterial ammonia monooxogenase (AMO) and ii) structural biology of mutant prokaryotic ribosomes, where he is interested in characterizing the function and dynamics of these mutants, with an eye toward answering questions in structure and dynamics of ribosomes which are resistant to some of today’s commonly-used antibiotics. His current research efforts also include methods development for time-resolved ambient-temperature X-ray crystallography of large and challenging biomacromolecules at 4th-generation light sources like the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC.