BIOSKETCH CHRISTOPHER C. MOSER
1005 Stellar-Chance Labs
Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: (215) 573-3909
Fax: (215) 573-2235
Email: moserc@mail.med.upenn.edu
EDUCATION
| 1987 |
Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Electron Transfers of Reaction Center Hybrid Protein Systems" |
| 1979 |
B.A. (Magna cum laude) in Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania |
APPOINTMENTS
| 2005-Present |
Editor, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta—Bioenergetics |
| 1999-Present |
Associate Director, Johnson Research Foundation
University of Pennsylvania |
| 1993 |
Assistant Director, Johnson Research Foundation
University of Pennsylvania |
| 1987 |
Post Doctoral Fellow with P. L. Dutton
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania |
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Electron transfer theory and design of natural and synthetic proteins;
Vulnerability of natural bioenergetic systems to medically relevant failure;
Application of principles of natural bioenergetic systems to harvesting sunlight for catalysis and clean energy, including design of artificial electron transfer proteins that self assemble on electrodes;
UV, Visible and Infrared spectroscopy, electrochemistry and light activated kinetics as probes for action of these systems.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
More than 12 years of lectures at University of Pennsylvania, including BMB 610—Biomolecular Spectroscopy (Biochemistry and Biophysics department), Bio 526—Techniques in molecular biology (Biology department), and lectures at the Veterinary school on bioenergetics. Delivered 3 different natural science courses for adult education at Antioch College.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Blankenship, R. E., Tiede, D. M., Barber, J., Brudvig, G. W., Fleming, G., Ghirardi, M., Gunner, M. R., Junge, W., Kramer, D. M., Melis, A., Moore, T. A., Moser, C. C., Nocera, D. G., Nozik, A. J., Ort, D. R., Parson, W. W., Prince, R. C., & Sayre, R. T. Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement. Science 332, 805-809, 2011.
- Swierczek, M., Cieluch, E., Sarewicz, M., Borek, A., Moser, C. C., Dutton, P. L., & Osyczka, A. An Electronic Bus Bar Lies in the Core of Cytochrome bc(1). Science 329, 451-454, 2010.
- Moser, C. C., Anderson, J. L. R., & Dutton, P. L. Guidelines for tunneling in enzymes. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1797, 1573-1586, 2010.
- Koder, R. L., Anderson, J. L. R., Solomon, L. A., Reddy, K. S., Moser, C. C., & Dutton, P. L. Design and engineering of an O(2) transport protein. Nature 458, 305-309, 2009.
- Moser, C. C., Chobot, S. E., Page, C. C., & Dutton, P. L. Distance metrics for heme protein electron tunneling. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1777, 1032-1037, 2008.
- Moser, C. C., Farid, T. A., Chobot, S. E., & Dutton, P. L. Electron tunneling chains of mitochondria. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1757, 1096-1109, 2006.
- Osyczka, A., Moser, C. C., Daldal, F., & Dutton, P. L. Reversible redox energy coupling in electron transfer chains. Nature 427, 607-612, 2004.
- Page, C. C., Moser, C. C., Chen, X. X., & Dutton, P. L. Natural engineering principles of electron tunnelling in biological oxidation-reduction. Nature 402, 47-52, 1999.
- Robertson, D. E., Farid, R. S., Moser, C. C., Urbauer, J. L., Mulholland, S. E., Pidikiti, R., Lear, J. D., Wand, A. J., Degrado, W. F., & Dutton, P. L. Design and Synthesis of Multi-Heme Proteins. Nature 368, 425-431, 1994.
- Moser, C. C., Keske, J. M., Warncke, K., Farid, R. S., & Dutton, P. L. Nature of Biological Electron-Transfer. Nature 355, 796-802, 1992.