Elizabeth M. Boon

Elizabeth M. Boon is an American biochemist who is a professor and associate dean of the graduate school at Stony Brook University. She is known for her research on the biochemical mechanisms used by bacteria to regulate biofilm formation.

Education and career

Boon was an undergraduate at Kenyon College where she majored in chemistry.[1] She moved to the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, working with Jacqueline Barton on DNA-mediated electrochemical reactions.[2] Following her Ph.D., Boon was a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley working with Michael Marletta.[3][4] At Stony Brook University she serves as a professor of chemistry.[1] In 2018 she was made co-director of the Chemical Biology Training Program, an NIH-funded T32 program. In 2023 she was named associate dean of the graduate school.[5]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

  • Boon, Elizabeth M.; Ceres, Donato M.; Drummond, Thomas G.; Hill, Michael G.; Barton, Jacqueline K. (2000). "Mutation detection by electrocatalysis at DNA-modified electrodes". Nature Biotechnology. 18 (10): 1096–1100. doi:10.1038/80301. ISSN 1546-1696. PMID 11017050.
  • Boon, Elizabeth M.; Huang, Shirley H.; Marletta, Michael A. (2005). "A molecular basis for NO selectivity in soluble guanylate cyclase". Nature Chemical Biology. 1 (1): 53–59. doi:10.1038/nchembio704. ISSN 1552-4469. PMID 16407994.
  • Arora, Dhruv P.; Hossain, Sajjad; Xu, Yueming; Boon, Elizabeth M. (2015-06-23). "Nitric Oxide Regulation of Bacterial Biofilms". Biochemistry. 54 (24): 3717–3728. doi:10.1021/bi501476n. ISSN 0006-2960. PMID 25996573.
  • Henares, Bernadette M.; Higgins, Kate E.; Boon, Elizabeth M. (2012-08-17). "Discovery of a Nitric Oxide Responsive Quorum Sensing Circuit in Vibrio harveyi". ACS Chemical Biology. 7 (8): 1331–1336. doi:10.1021/cb300215t. ISSN 1554-8929. PMID 22606970.
  • Hossain, Sajjad; Boon, Elizabeth M. (2017-06-09). "Discovery of a Novel Nitric Oxide Binding Protein and Nitric-Oxide-Responsive Signaling Pathway in Pseudomonas aeruginosa". ACS Infectious Diseases. 3 (6): 454–461. doi:10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00027. ISSN 2373-8227. PMC 5468770. PMID 28238256.

References

  1. ^ a b "Elizabeth Boon | Department of Chemistry". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  2. ^ Boon, Elizabeth Marshall (2003). Electrochemical sensors based on DNA-mediated charge transport chemistry (phd). California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/PFXM-7M76.
  3. ^ Boon, Elizabeth M.; Marletta, Michael A. (2006-08-01). "Sensitive and Selective Detection of Nitric Oxide Using an H−NOX Domain". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128 (31): 10022–10023. doi:10.1021/ja0632714. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 16881625.
  4. ^ Boon, Elizabeth M.; Davis, Joseph H.; Tran, Rosalie; Karow, David S.; Huang, Shirley H.; Pan, Duohai; Miazgowicz, Michael M.; Mathies, Richard A.; Marletta, Michael A. (2006). "Nitric Oxide Binding to Prokaryotic Homologs of the Soluble Guanylate Cyclase β1 H-NOX Domain". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281 (31): 21892–21902. doi:10.1074/jbc.M600557200. PMID 16728401.
  5. ^ "Meet the Team | The Graduate School". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  6. ^ "Elizabeth Boon". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  7. ^ "President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". www.nsf.gov. July 13, 2009. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  8. ^ "2008 Young Investigators". Office of Naval Research. 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2024-05-15.