Stephen A. Cusack

Stephen Cusack
Stephen Cusack in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Born	Stephen Anthony Cusack
Institutions	European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Alma mater	Imperial College London (PhD)
Thesis	Electron Density and Pair Correlation Functions in Metals (1976)
Notable awards	FRS (2015)[1] EMBO member
Website www.embl.fr/research/unit/cusack

Stephen Anthony Cusack FRS^[1] is Head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation in Grenoble, France.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Education

Cusack was educated at Imperial College London where he was awarded a PhD in 1976 for research on the Radial distribution function and electron density in metals.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Awards and honours

Cusack was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

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Stephen Cusack is internationally renowned for major contributions in three areas. He has elucidated the structure and function of protein-RNA complexes involved in RNA maturation, translation and pattern recognition. These are exemplified by work on amino acyl tRNA synthetases, crucial to protein synthesis in all living organisms and analyses of the innate immune recognition of pathogens. As head of the EMBL outstation in Grenoble he has played a pioneering role in the development of instrumentation for structural biology at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, benefiting the structural biology community throughout Europe, and he has recently played a wider role in Europe as a founder of the Instruct project. He has in addition made a series of seminal advances in our understanding of the structure and life cycle of viruses, with particular focus on therapeutic potential.[1]

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Cusack is also an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

References

1. "Dr Stephen Cusack FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.
2. Stephen A. Cusack's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
3. Doster, W; Cusack, S; Petry, W (1989). "Dynamical transition of myoglobin revealed by inelastic neutron scattering". Nature 337 (6209): 754–6. doi:10.1038/337754a0. PMID 2918910.
4. Weis, W; Brown, J. H.; Cusack, S; Paulson, J. C.; Skehel, J. J.; Wiley, D. C. (1988). "Structure of the influenza virus haemagglutinin complexed with its receptor, sialic acid". Nature 333 (6172): 426–31. doi:10.1038/333426a0. PMID 3374584.
5. Cusack, S; Berthet-Colominas, C; Härtlein, M; Nassar, N; Leberman, R (1990). "A second class of synthetase structure revealed by X-ray analysis of Escherichia coli seryl-tRNA synthetase at 2.5 Å". Nature 347 (6290): 249–55. doi:10.1038/347249a0. PMID 2205803.
6. Biou, V; Yaremchuk, A; Tukalo, M; Cusack, S (1994). "The 2.9 Å crystal structure of T. Thermophilus seryl-tRNA synthetase complexed with tRNA(Ser)". Science (New York, N.Y.) 263 (5152): 1404–10. doi:10.1126/science.8128220. PMID 8128220.
7. Stephen A. Cusack publications from Europe PubMed Central
8. Cusack, Stephen Anthony (1976). Electron Density and Pair Correlation Functions in Metals (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. OCLC 500414296.
9. Cusack, S.; March, N. H.; Parrinello, M.; Tosi, M. P. (1976). "Electron-electron pair correlation function in solid and molten nearly-free electron metals". Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics 6 (5): 749. doi:10.1088/0305-4608/6/5/017.
10. Cusack, S. (1976). "Correlated bond percolation on the Bethe lattice". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 9 (6): L55. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/9/6/003.
11. Cusack, S; Miller, A (1979). "Determination of the elastic constants of collagen by Brillouin light scattering". Journal of Molecular Biology 135 (1): 39–51. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(79)90339-5. PMID 529291.