Gabriela Schlau-Cohen

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Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen
Alma mater Brown University, University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic advisors Graham Fleming, W.E. Moerner
Website www.schlaucohenlab.com

Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen is a Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Chemistry. [1]

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Education and career

Schlau-Cohen received a BS with honors in chemical physics from Brown University in 2003. She completed her PhD in chemistry in 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Professor Graham R. Fleming as an American Association of University Women (AAUW) fellow. From 2011 to 2014, Schlau-Cohen was a Center for Molecular Analysis and Design (CMAD) postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She worked with Professor W.E. Moerner and Professor Ed Solomon on oxidative enzyme mechanisms, employing “time-dependent, single-molecule spectroscopy and steady-state ensemble measurements to study the kinetics of electron transfer in Fet3p, the MCO [ multi-copper oxidase ] responsible for iron uptake in yeast.” [2]

In 2015, Schlau-Cohen joined the faculty of MIT as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor on July 1, 2020. [3] Her research group at MIT, also known as the Schlau-Cohen Lab, is at the intersection of physical and biological chemistry. The lab focuses on using “a combination of single-molecule and ultrafast spectroscopies to explore the energetic and structural dynamics of biological systems.” [4] Schlau-Cohen’s team works to “develop and apply tools to uncover the conformational and photophysical mechanisms of photosynthetic light harvesting and its regulation.” [5]

Schlau-Cohen has served as associate director of the Bioinspired Light Escalated Chemistry Energy Frontier Research Center (BioLEC EFRC), [6] a member of the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Laser Science, [7] and as a STEM ambassador for the American Association of University Women. [8]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

  1. Son, Minjung; Pinnola, Alberta; Gordon, Samuel C.; Bassi, Roberto; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S. (March 10, 2020). "Observation of dissipative chlorophyll-to-carotenoid energy transfer in light-harvesting complex II in membrane nanodiscs". Nature Communications. 11 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1295. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.1295S. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15074-6. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   7064482 . PMID   32157079.
  2. Kondo, Toru; Gordon, Jesse B.; Pinnola, Alberta; Dall’Osto, Luca; Bassi, Roberto; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S. (May 17, 2019). "Microsecond and millisecond dynamics in the photosynthetic protein LHCSR1 observed by single-molecule correlation spectroscopy". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (23): 11247–11252. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11611247K. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821207116 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   6561297 . PMID   31101718.
  3. Son, Minjung; Pinnola, Alberta; Bassi, Roberto; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S. (2019). "The Electronic Structure of Lutein 2 Is Optimized for Light Harvesting in Plants". Chem. 5 (3). Elsevier BV: 575–584. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.12.016 . ISSN   2451-9294. S2CID   128034970.
  4. Quinn, Steven D.; Srinivasan, Shwetha; Gordon, Jesse B.; He, Wei; Carraway, Kermit L.; Coleman, Matthew A.; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S. (March 19, 2018). "Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Membrane Discs". Biochemistry. 58 (4). American Chemical Society (ACS): 286–294. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00089. ISSN   0006-2960. PMC   6173994 . PMID   29553754.
  5. Ogren, John I.; Tong, Ashley L.; Gordon, Samuel C.; Chenu, Aurélia; Lu, Yue; Blankenship, Robert E.; Cao, Jianshu; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S. (2018). "Impact of the lipid bilayer on energy transfer kinetics in the photosynthetic protein LH2". Chemical Science. 9 (12). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): 3095–3104. doi:10.1039/c7sc04814a. ISSN   2041-6520. PMC   5914429 . PMID   29732092.
  6. Kondo, Toru; Chen, Wei Jia; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S. (January 10, 2017). "Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Systems". Chemical Reviews. 117 (2). American Chemical Society (ACS): 860–898. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00195. ISSN   0009-2665. OSTI   1388262. PMID   28072519.
  7. Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S.; Berry, Joseph (2015). "Photosynthetic fluorescence, from molecule to planet". Physics Today. 68 (9). AIP Publishing: 66–67. Bibcode:2015PhT....68i..66S. doi: 10.1063/pt.3.2924 . ISSN   0031-9228.
  8. Schlau-Cohen, G. S. (June 6, 2015). "Principles of light harvesting from single photosynthetic complexes". Interface Focus. 5 (3). The Royal Society: 20140088. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2014.0088. ISSN   2042-8898. PMC   4410562 . PMID   26052423.
  9. Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S.; Yang, Hsiang-Yu; Krüger, Tjaart P. J.; Xu, Pengqi; Gwizdala, Michal; van Grondelle, Rienk; Croce, Roberta; Moerner, W. E. (February 23, 2015). "Single-Molecule Identification of Quenched and Unquenched States of LHCII". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6 (5). American Chemical Society (ACS): 860–867. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00034. hdl: 2263/58962 . ISSN   1948-7185. PMID   26262664.

References

  1. ↑ "Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen – MIT Department of Chemistry" . Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Gabriela Schlau-Cohen | Department of Chemistry". chemistry.stanford.edu. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Dincă, Johnson, and Schlau-Cohen Receive Promotions – MIT Department of Chemistry". March 3, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Schlau-Cohen Lab". The Schlau-Cohen Lab. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Meet the 2020 Recipients of The Journal of Physical Chemistry – PHYS Division Lectureship Awards". ACS Axial. March 27, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ "People – biolec". Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Executive Committee". aps.org. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  8. ↑ "People". The Schlau-Cohen Lab. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  9. ↑ "2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards". Dreyfus Foundation. April 27, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  10. ↑ Advancement, Research Corporation for Science. "Scialog® – CMC Fellows and Facilitators". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Bio -". CIFAR. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Chemformation monthly digest". mit.imodules.com. March 30, 2018. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  13. ↑ "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program – 2017 Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". commonfund.nih.gov. September 18, 2018. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  14. ↑ "CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars". CIFAR. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Gabriela Schlau-Cohen". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  16. ↑ "The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society". phys-acs.org. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
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