Virginia Cornish

Virginia Wood Cornish is the Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University.[1]

Virginia W. Cornish, Ph.D.
NationalityUSA
Alma materColumbia University, University of California, Berkeley, MIT
Known forChemical Biology, Genome Project-Write

Background and education

Cornish received her B.A. in chemistry in 1991, working with professor Ronald Breslow. Her Ph.D. research, on site-specific protein labeling[2] and mutagenesis, was carried out with Peter Schultz. Cornish was an NSF postdoctoral fellow[3] at MIT with Prof. Robert T. Sauer.

Research

Cornish and her lab group use the tools of systems biology, synthetic biology, and DNA encoding to produce desired chemical products from specific organismic hosts. In 2016, she was part of a notable group of genomic scientists calling for increased ethical study and self-regulation as the costs and effort of creating de novo genomes plummeted. As the "read" phase of the Human Genome Project was completed in 2004, this new effort was dubbed Genome Project-Write.[4]

Awards

References
  1. "Chemistry Group Directory". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  2. Cornish, Virginia W.; Hahn, Klaus M.; Schultz, Peter G. (January 1996). "Site-Specific Protein Modification Using a Ketone Handle". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118 (34): 8150–8151. doi:10.1021/ja961216x. ISSN 0002-7863.
  3. "WEDDINGS; Virginia Cornish, Donald Rollock". Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  4. Boeke, Jef D.; Church, George; Hessel, Andrew; Kelley, Nancy J.; Arkin, Adam; Cai, Yizhi; Carlson, Rob; Chakravarti, Aravinda; Cornish, Virginia W. (2016-07-08). "The Genome Project-Write". Science. 353 (6295): 126–127. doi:10.1126/science.aaf6850. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27256881.
  5. "The Protein Society : Protein Society Awards". www.proteinsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
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