Jacqueline Barton

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Jacqueline K. Barton
Born
New York City
Institution Bell Labs
Yale
Hunter College
Columbia
Caltech
Alma Mater Barnard College
Columbia
Notable Students Jonathan Hart, Donato Ceres, Tao Liu
Notable Prizes Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (1985)

Fresenius Award (1986)

American Chemical Society Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry(1987)

American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1988)

The Mayor of New York's Award in Science and Technology (1988)

American Chemical Society Baekeland Medal (1991)

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1991)

American Chemical Society Garvan Medal (1992)

American Chemical Society Tolman Medal (1994)

Havinga Medal (1995)

Paul Karrer Medal (1996)

American Chemical Society Nichols Medal (1997)

Weizmann Women & Science Award (1998)

ACS Ronald Breslow Award in Biomimetic Chemistry (2003)

ACS Gibbs Medal (2006)


Professor Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of her research is transverse electron transport along double-stranded DNA, its implications in the biology of DNA damage and repair, and its potential for materials sciences applications. She is married to fellow Caltech chemist Peter Dervan.

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[edit] Education

Barton received her B.A. (summa cum laude) from Barnard College in 1974. She went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where she studied inorganic chemistry under the supervision of S.J. Lippard. After earning her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1979, she held post-doctoral appointments at Bell Labs and Yale University, where she worked with R.G. Shulman.

[edit] Career

At the end of her post-doc at Yale, Barton became an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Hunter College. In 1983, she joined the faculty of Columbia's chemistry department, becoming a full professor in 1986.

In the fall of 1989, Barton joined the Caltech faculty.

[edit] Selected publications

  • O'Neill, M.A., J.K. Barton (2005). “Sequence-Dependent DNA Dynamics: The Regulator of DNA-Mediated Charge Transport”, ed. H.A. Wagenknecht: Charge Transfer in DNA: From Mechanism to Application. Wiley-VCH, 27-75.

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