Name

Eric S. DeJong      Curriculum Vitae

Position

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Education and Experience

2000-present   NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology Rockville, MD     1995-2000   Ph.D., Biochemistry Rice University, Department of Biochemistry Houston, TX Ph.D. Dissertation: "Structure and Dynamic Investigations into RNA using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Techniques"     1989-1993   B.S., Physics, cum laude Catholic University of America, Department of Physics Washington, D.C.

Honors

Sigma Pi Sigma
Clyde C. Cowen Fellow and Scholarship Award (1989-1993)
Barry M. Goldwater Fellow and Scholarship Award (1990-1993)
Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program Pre-doctoral Trainee (1996-1999)
NRC Postdoctor Fellow (2000)

Publications and Presentations

DeJong, E., Marzluff, W., Nikonowicz, E., "NMR Structure and Dynamics of the RNA Binding Site for the Histone mRNA Stem-Loop Binding Protein", submitted.

Nikonowicz, E.P., Michnicka, M., Kalurachchi, K., DeJong, E., "Improved NOE-Based Sequential Correlation of Base and 1' Proton Resonances in Labeled Nucleic Acids", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 , 3813-14 (1998)

Nikonowicz, E.P., Michnicka, M.,  Kalurachchi, K., DeJong, E., "Preparation and Characterization of a uniformly 2H/15N-labeled RNA oligonucleotide for NMR Studies", Nucleic Acids Res. 25 , 1390-6 (1997)

Nikonowicz, E.P., Kalurachchi , K., DeJong, E., "A comparison of H5 and H8 relaxation rates of a 2H/13C/15N labeled RNA Oligonucleotide with Selective Protonation at C5 and C8", FEBS Lett. 415 , 109-13 (1997)