Washington and Lee University Chemistry Department

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Frederick J. LaRiviere, Ph.D. Biochemistry from University of Colorado at Boulder   Phone Number: (540) 458-8257 E-mail: larivieref@wlu.edu Office Number: A429

Courses Taught:

• Chem 343 Biochemistry Laboratory

Research Interests: RNA biochemistry; ribosome assembly and quality control; translation

Education

• 2005-2006 Dreyfus Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Colby College
  o with Professor Julie T. Millard
• 2001-2005 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University
  o with Professor Melissa J. Moore, HHMI
• 2001 Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of Colorado
  o Thesis Advisor: Professor Olke C. Uhlenbeck
  o Thesis Title: tRNA conformity by elongation factor Tu
• 1994 B.A., Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clark University

Awards:

• 2006 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Award
• 2004 Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference Promoted Speaker Award
• 2002-2005 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1994 American Institute of Chemists Student Achievement Award in Biochemistry
• 1993 M. Margaret Comer Award for Undergraduate Research in the Biological Sciences
  

Grants:

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Award; "Investigation of the mechanisms of ribosome synthesis and ribosomal RNA degradation," Awarded July, 2006, $30,000
• J. Edwin Treakle Foundation; "Equipment to build a new biochemistry laboratory," Awarded June, 2006, $2,000 (with Lisa T. Alty)

Professional Organizations:

• American Chemical Society

Publications:

• LaRiviere FJ, Cole SE, and Moore MJ. "A Late-Acting Quality Control Process for Mature Eukaryotic rRNAs" Manuscript submitted to Molecular Cell, 2006
• LaRiviere FJ, Miller LM, and Millard JT. "A Service-Learning Outreach Course in Chemistry" Manuscript submitted to Journal of Chemical Education, 2006
• LaRiviere FJ, Wolfson AD, and Uhlenbeck OC. "Uniform Binding of Aminoacyl tRNAs to Elongation Factor Tu by Thermodynamic Compensation" Science, 2001, 294:165-168.
• Wolfson AD, LaRiviere FJ, Pleiss JA, Dale T, Asahara H, and Uhlenbeck OC. "tRNA Conformity" Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 2001, 66:185-193.
• Sherlin LD, Bullock TL, Nissan TA, Perona JJ, LaRiviere FJ, Uhlenbeck OC and Scaringe SA. "Chemical and Enzymatic Synthesis of tRNAs for High-Throughput Crystallization" RNA, 2001, 7:1671-1678
• Long DM, LaRiviere FJ, and Uhlenbeck OC. "Divalent Metal Ions and the Internal Equilibrium of the Hammerhead Ribozyme" Biochemistry, 1995, 34:14435-14440.
  

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