Mair E. A. Churchill, Ph.D.

Educational Background

• B.A. in Chemistry, Swarthmore College (1981)
  

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University (1988)
       Research Advisor: Professor Thomas D. Tullius
       Dissertation: "Hydroxyl Radical Cleavage of DNA: Structural      Studies on the TFIIIA-a5S Gene Complex and on Models for the      Holliday Recombination Intermediate"
  
  
• Postdoctoral fellow with Sir Aaron Klug. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K. (1987-1993)
  
     Topic: Structural studies of DNA- protein complexes using
     biochemicaland crystallographic techniques.


• Rockefeller Foundation Academic Exchange Visitor in the laboratory of Dr. Ian A. Wilson, Scripps Research Institute (March-July and October-December, 1991).
       Topic: X-ray crystal structure of an anti-peptide
       Fab-peptide complex
  
  

Research and Teaching Experience

• American Cyanamid Research Laboratories, Stamford, CT
  (1980, 1981)
  
     Scientific Associate in Physical Chemistry and Mining
     Chemicals Research Divisions.


• Swarthmore College employment (1979-1981)
  
     Laboratory Assistant: Organic and Advanced
     Organic Chemistry laboratories.
     Grader and Private Tutor for Introductory, Inorganic,
     and Organic Chemistry.

• The Johns Hopkins University Chemistry Department employment (1981-1983)
  
     Teaching Assistant: Inorganic and General Chemistry.


• MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K. (1987-1993)
  
     Non-clinical Scientific Staff Grade I (1989-1993)


• University of Illinois - UIUC (1993-1998)
  
     Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Structural
     Biology, Biophysics Program, and Department of Biochemistry


• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center - UCHSC
  (1998-present)
       Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology (1998-2001)
       Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology (2001-present)
       Joint Appointment: Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
       (1998-present)
       Member: Program in Biomolecular Structure; Colorado
       Comprehensive Cancer Center; Biomedical Sciences Program;
       ComprehensiveMolecular Biology Program, Medical Scientist
       Training Program.