John B Bruning
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Biography
John B Bruning received BSc from Texas A&M University in 1997. He began crystallography in the Laboratory of Yousif Shamoo at Rice University. During his
graduate studies he worked on the structural mechanism of the human sliding clamp and its interactions with DNA replication proteins. He received his PhD in 2005
and completed two successful Post-docs; the fi rst was at the Scripps Research Institute from 2005-2007 working on structural studies of nuclear receptors including
PPAR, RXR, ER and TR and his second Post-doc was with Jim Sacchettini in the Houston Medical Centre and as a part of the TB structural genomics consortium.
He received his fi rst faculty position at the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in 2012. He was tenured in 2015 and promoted as Senior Lecturer in 2016. Due to
his continued collaboration with Scripps Research Institute, he was also appointed as Adjunct Professor of the Scripps Research Institute in 2016.