Avraham Samson Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Dr. Abraham O. Samson
Address:
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Tel: +1-650-7235720, Cell: +1-650-8624458
e-mail: avraham.samson@stanford.edu
Date of birth:
July 10th, 1976.
Education:
2007-2010 Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, School of Medicine, Structural Biology Department, Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Michael Levitt.
2001-2006 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Faculty of Chemistry, Structural Biology Department. Ph.D. degree in the laboratory of Prof. Jacob Anglister.
2004-2005 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Faculty of Social Sciences, Graduate School of Business, MBA degree.
1998-2000 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Faculty of Chemistry, Structural Biology Department. M.Sc. degree in the laboratory of Prof. Jacob Anglister.
1995-1998 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemistry Department. B.Sc. degree
Awards and honors:
2006 - Postdoctoral scholarship, Levitt Lab, Stanford University
2005 Ph.D. degree
2004,2005 Kimmelman prize for scientific excellence.
2005 MBA degree.
2000-2005 PhD scholarship. The Becker Family Fund Scholarship.
2001 Honorary Scholarship, The Abe Lisan Educational Grant Bursary.
2000 M.Sc. degree with cum laude honors.
1998-2000 M.Sc. Scholarship. The Louis and Edith Blumberg Scholarship Fund.
1998 B.Sc. degree with summa cum laude honors.
1997 Rachel and Ruben Jacobs prize for excellence.
1996,97,98 Deans prize for excellence at the faculty of natural sciences of Bar-Ilan University.
Peer reviewed Publications
· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Normal modes expose binding sites", 2010, PNAS under revision.
· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Normal modes of prion proteins: From native to infectious particle", 2010, Biochemistry in press.
· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., " Protein segment finder: an online search engine for segment motifs in the PDB", 2009, Nucleic Acid Research, 37 (Database issue), D224-8.
· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Inhibition mechanism of the acetylcholine receptor by α-neurotoxins as revealed by normal mode dynamics", 2008, Biochemistry, 47, 4065-4070.
· Rosen O., Samson A.O., and Anglister J., "Correlated mutations at gp120 positions 322 and 440: implications for gp120 structure", 2008, Proteins, 71, 1066-70. (equal contribution as R.O.)
· Rosen O., Samson A. O., Sharon M., Zolla-Pazner S., and Anglister J., "Response to Matters Arising ", 2006, Structure, 14, 649-651 (equal contribution as R.O.)
· Samson A. O., and Anglister J., "2D-measurement of proton T1ρ relaxation in unlabeled proteins: α-bungarotoxin complex with acetylcholine receptor peptide", 2005, Biochemistry, 44, 10926-10934.
· Biron Z., Khare S., Samson A., Naider F., and Anglister J. "A monomeric 310-helix is formed in water by a 13-residue peptide representing the neutralizing determinant of HIV-1 on gp41" , 2002, Biochemistry, 41, 12687-12696.
· Yassin L., Samson A.O., Halevi S., Eshel M., and Treinin M., "Mutations in the extracellular domain and in the membrane spanning domains interfere with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor maturation", 2002, Biochemistry, 41, 12329-12335.
· Samson A.O., Scherf. T., Eisenstein M., Chill J., and Anglister J., "The mechanism for acetylcholine receptor inhibition by a-neurotoxins and species-specific resistance to α-bungarotoxin revealed by NMR", 2002, Neuron, 35, 319-332.
· Yao Y., Wang J., Viroonchatapan N., Rothe E., Samson A.O., Chill J., Anglister J., and Wang Z. "Yeast expression and NMR analysis of the extracellular domain of muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α-subunit", 2002, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(15), 12613-12621
· Samson A.O., Chill J., Rodriguez E., Scherf T., and Anglister J., "NMR mapping and secondary structure determination of the major acetylcholine receptor α-subunit determinant interacting with α-bungarotoxin", 2001, Biochemistry, 40, 5464-5473.
Book chapters
· Samson A. O., Scherf T., Eisenstein M., Chill J. H., and Anglister J., "The mechanism for acetylcholine receptor inhibition by -neurotoxins and species specific resistance to α-bungarotoxin revealed by NMR" (2004) Cholinergic mechanisms, function and dysfunction, p.45-54, Taylor & Francis group, UK.
· Samson A. O., Scherf T., Eisenstein M., and Anglister J., "Interactions of toxins with cholinergic proteins", (2004) Cholinesterases in the second millenium: Biomolecular and Pathological Aspects, p.285-93, Diseņo e Impresiones Ltda. press. Pucon, Chile.
Teaching experience:
2005 Undergraduate teacher of biochemistry course, 2nd year B.Sc. students. Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel.
2005 Undergraduate teacher of bioinformatics course, 2nd year B.Sc. students. Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel.
2005 Graduate teacher assistant of NMR course, mixed M.Sc. and PhD students, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Conferences:
2008 "Protein Folding Center Annual Retreat" San-Francisco, CA, Apr. 27-28, 2008,
"GROMACS workshop" Stanford, CA, USA. Apr. 7-8, 2008
2006 "232nd National meeting of American Chemical Society", San Francisco, CA, USA. Sep. 10-14, 2006, Poster presentation
"Protein Folding Center Annual Retreat" Stanford, CA, USA. Apr. 27-28, 2006.
2005 "Congress of the Federation of the Israeli Societies for Experimental Biology", Eilat, Israel, Feb. 7-10, 2005, Poster presentation
2002 "XIth international symposium on cholinergic mechanism", St. Moritz, Switzerland. May 5-9, 2002, Oral and poster presentation
"XIX International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological System" Toronto, Canada. Aug. 25-30, 2002. Oral and poster presentation
2001 "66th meeting of the Israel Society of Chemistry" Tel-Aviv, Israel. Feb. 5-6, 2001, Oral and poster presentation
"14th Conference of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance" Rhodes, Greece. Aug. 19-23, 2001, Poster presentation
2000 "XIX International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological System" Florence, Italy. Aug. 20-25 2000, Poster presentation
"Ninth Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neurosciences", Eilat, Israel, Dec. 3-6, 2000, Speaker
Languages:
Fluency in Danish, English, French, Spanish, and Hebrew. Good knowledge of Italian and German.