James Rothman

James Rothman
Born
James Edward Rothman

(1950-11-03) November 3, 1950 (age 74)
Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCell biology
Institutions
ThesisTransbilayer asymmetry and its maintenance in biological membranes (1976)
Academic advisorsHarvey Lodish
Notable studentsGero Miesenböck (postdoc)[2][3]
Websitewww.chem.yale.edu/faculty/rothman.html

James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus.[4]

Rothman worked at Columbia University[5] and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.[6]

Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof).[7]

He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2015.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "James E. Rothman, Faculty: Yale Department of Chemistry". Chem.yale.edu. Archived from the original on December 11, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ Miesenböck, G.; Rothman, J. E. (1997). "Patterns of synaptic activity in neural networks recorded by light emission from synaptolucins". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94 (7): 3402–3407. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.3402M. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.7.3402. PMC 20382. PMID 9096406.
  3. ↑ Miesenböck, G.; De Angelis, D. A.; Rothman, J. E. (1998). "Visualizing secretion and synaptic transmission with pH-sensitive green fluorescent proteins". Nature. 394 (6689): 192–195. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..192M. doi:10.1038/28190. PMID 9671304. S2CID 4320849.
  4. ↑ "James E Rothman". Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "P&S Adjunct Faculty Member Wins 2013 Nobel Prize". Columbia Newsroom. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-05-15. Retrieved 2021-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ "James Rothman". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.