Piers Nash

Piers David Nash

Nash in 2014
Born (1969-08-08) 8 August 1969
Exeter, England
Nationality UK, Canada, US
Fields Biochemistry, cell biology
Institutions University of Chicago
Alma mater University of Alberta
University of Guelph
Booth School of Business
Doctoral advisor Grant McFadden
Doctoral students Bernard Liu, Ilana Berlin, Maria Sierra, Brett Engelmann
Known for Cellular signal transduction
Influences Anthony Pawson

Piers David Nash (born 8 August 1969) is the director of business development and outreach University of Chicago's Center for Data Intensive Science. He is the son of academic Roger Nash.

Early life and education

Born in Exeter, England, and grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. In high school he competed in the Canada-Wide Science Fair in five successive years (1983–87), winning awards on each occasion. In 1985 he was selected to represent Canada as one of two youth delegates to the Nobel Prize lectures and ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar. He received a BSc with honours in biochemistry from the University of Guelph, and the Chemical Institute of Canada prize for the top of class. He received a PhD in 1999 from the University of Alberta working in the laboratory of Dr. Grant McFadden investigating poxviral immunomodulatory proteins. His doctoral thesis focused on the enzymology and biological properties of the Myxoma virus encoded serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin), SERP-1. He completed postdoctoral research with Anthony Pawson at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto from June 1999 to December 2003.

Career

He was a professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and a Scientist of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Chicago from 2004–2012 and a fellow of the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology[1] from 2006–2012. As a scientist he investigates protein–protein interactions involved in signal transduction, and the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues. His work at the University of Chicago focused on understanding the SH2 domain at a systems level and investigating the role of ubiquitination in controlling endocytosis and modulating signal transduction. Earlier work focused on the emergent properties of complex systems such as ultrasensitivity (all-or-none switches) at critical junctures in the cell cycle. In 2014, Nash received an MBA with a concentration in finance awarded with high honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

ResearchGate reports 54 peer-reviewed published works in a wide range of fields, including signal transduction, cell biology, molecular evolution, cell cycle, cognition and memory, meteorology, and pedagogy.[2] Scopus notes an h-index of 26 and 3530 citations[3] on 44 publications tracked in that database since 1996.

Publications

Research Papers

This article was the focus of the following reviews and comments:
Ferrell, James E. (2001). "Cell cycleSix steps to destruction". Nature 414 (6863): 498–9. Bibcode:2001Natur.414..498F. doi:10.1038/35107180. PMID 11734834. 
Deshaies, Raymond J.; Ferrell Jr., James E. (2001). "Multisite Phosphorylation and the Countdown to S Phase". Cell 107 (7): 819–22. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(01)00620-1. PMID 11779457. 
Harper, J.Wade (2002). "A phosphorylation-driven ubiquitination switch for cell-cycle control". Trends in Cell Biology 12 (3): 104–7. doi:10.1016/S0962-8924(01)02238-3. PMID 11859016. 
Tromans, Amanda (2001). "Switching on S phase". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2 (12): 873. doi:10.1038/35103051. PMID 11733763. 
Adler, E. M.; Gough, N. R.; Ray, L. B. (2005). "2004: Signaling Breakthroughs of the Year". Science Signaling 2005 (265): eg1. doi:10.1126/stke.2652005eg1. 

Book Chapters

Review Articles

This was the focus of the following review:
Gough, N. R.; Adler, E. M.; Ray, L. B. (2003). "Focus Issue: Cellular Regulation Through Protein Interaction Domains". Science Signaling 2003 (179): eg6. doi:10.1126/scisignal.1792003eg6. 

Honors and awards

Notes

  1. http://www.igsb.org Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology
  2. ResearchGate Profile of Piers Nash 30 October 2014 (see External Links)
  3. Scopus profile of Piers D. Nash 16 December 2014 (see External Links)

External links

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