Professor and Ramsey/Georgia Research Alliance (GRA)
Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology
B.Sc. in Chem. Engineering, Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Ph. D. in Chemistry (1968), University of Arkansas
Member of the Center for Metalloenzyme Studies

After postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Wang joined the University of Pittsburgh. He rose through the ranks to become Professor in the Departments of Crystallography and Biological Sciences, and then moved to the University of Georgia in 1995 as Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Ramsey/Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology.

Dr. Wang has served on the Biophysical Chemistry Study Section for NIH, as President of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society and Co-editor of Crystallographic Reviews. In 1997, Dr. Wang initiated and founded the Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team (SER-CAT), a consortium of 25 institutions for the use of synchrotron X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source of the Argonne National Laboratory. From 2000 – 2006 he directed the NIH-funded Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. In 2005 he co-started the Global Structural Proteomics Initiative (GoSPI) between the UK and the Southeast USA and currently serves as the US Coordinator. His research is supported by the NIH, the USDA and the Georgia Research Alliance. For more information, please see the UGA BioCrystallography WWW server. Specifically, his research interests include:

• Application of structural biology tools for the structure-function studies of relevant biological macromolecules, which include RNA polymerases, neurophysins and their hormone complexes, glutathione transferases, glutamine binding protein and complex, aldehyde dehydrogenase, augmenter of liver regeneration, green fluorescent protein, hemerythrin, myohemerythrin, ferrochelatase and plant cell wall polysaccharides.
  
  
• Application of multidisciplinary methodologies for high-throughput structural genomics and structural proteomics.
  
  
• Development of advanced instrumentation for diffraction studies including synchrotron X-ray sources, remote access for beamline operations, robotic sample mounting technologies, and in-house X-ray sources.
  
  
• Development of computer software packages for Direct Crystallography - phasing from unlabelled native crystals, signal-based data collection, cost-effective high-throughput structure determination pipelines, and refinement methods to ensure high-quality structural results.

Full Publications: 150

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