Brian Wimberly

BWimberly@nysbc.org

Brian’s first love is ribosomes. He earned his PhD at UC Berkeley in Ignacio “Nacho” Tinoco’s lab. He then went on to do a post-doc at Scripps Research Institute in Dr. Chazin’s lab. He completed a second post-doc at the University of Utah under Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan’s lab which then moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. There, he solved high resolution crystal structure of bacterial 30s ribosomal subunit, leading to Ramakrishnan’s 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He then went on to work in industry for 10 years and returned to academia in 2011 at the University of Colorado Denver, where he joined the Kieft lab.