Biocatalysis

BIOGRAPHY

Contact details:
Karen N. Allen
Department of Chemistry
Boston University
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 299
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-358-5544
Fax: 202-354-5386
Email: drkallen [{@}] bu.edu

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine. B.S. in Biology, 1984, Tufts University, cum laude, Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1989, Brandeis University, supported as a Dretzin Scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Abeles. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1993 in the laboratory of Drs. Gregory Petsko and Dagmar Ringe at MIT and Brandeis University, Council Member ASBMB (2010-present); Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Enzymes Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways (2002); Member, NIH Biochemistry Study Section (2002-present); Member NSF Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Panel (1997-2000); Member, Nominating Committee, American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry (2002)

Research Interests: Elucidation of enzyme mechanisms through X-ray crystallography and kinetics. Mechanism of phosphate transfer reactions, evolution of substrate specificity in enzyme superfamilies, deciphering moonlighting functions of enzymes via examination of protein-protein interactions on the molecular level.