Brian Kloss
New York Structural Biology Center, USA
Biography
Brian Kloss began his research career as a graduate student in the laboratory of Carter Bancroft at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, studying the transcriptional regulation of the pituitary-specific prolactin and growth hormone genes. He went on to do a postdoc with Michael Young at Rockefeller University, studying the genetic control of circadian rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster. Afterwards, Brian spent almost six years at a biotech startup, helping to develop a cell-based assay for the screening of ligands of GPCRs. For the past ten years, Brian has been a part of the protein production facility of the Center on Membrane Protein Production and Analysis (COMPPÅ), located at the New York Structural Biology Center. There, he has led a small group focused on the identification, cloning and expression screening of integral membrane proteins of prokaryotic origin, mainly for structural studies.
Abstract
Abstract : Structural genomics of integral membrane proteins - past successes and future directions