Molecular & Computational Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
1050 Childs Way, RRI413E
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: +1 (213) 740 0779
Fax: +1 (213) 740 2437
email: alber at usc.edu
Frank Alber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Computational structural biology, computational cell biology, integrative approaches towards structure determination of macromolecular assemblies, nuclear organization, in particular the structure and function of the nuclear pore complex
Postdoctoral research at:
University of California San Francisco
Rockefeller University, New York City
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Ph.D.: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
MS.: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Visiting Scientist:
IBM Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland
Frank Alber, Friedrich Foerster, Dmitry Korkin, Maya Topf and Andrej Sali.
Integrating Diverse Data for Structure Determination of Macromolecular Assemblies.
Integrating Diverse Data for Structure Determination of Macromolecular Assemblies.
Ann. Rev. Biochem. (2008), Vol. 77, in press.
Frank Alber, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Liesbeth M. Veenhoff, Whenzhu Zhang, Julia Kipper,
Damien Devos, Tari Suprapto, Orit Karni-Schmidt, Rosemary Williams, Brian T. Chait,
Andrej Sali, Michael P. Rout.
Andrej Sali, Michael P. Rout.
The Molecular Architecture of the Nuclear Pore Complex.
Nature. (2007), 450, 684.
Frank Alber, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Liesbeth M. Veenhoff, Whenzhu Zhang, Julia Kipper, Damien Devos,
Tari Suprapto, Orit Karni-Schmidt, Rosemary Williams, Brian T. Chait, Michael P. Rout, Andrej Sali.
Determining the Architectures of Macromolecular Assemblies.
Determining the Architectures of Macromolecular Assemblies.
Nature. (2007),450, 701.
Damien Devos, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Rosemary Williams, Frank Alber, N. Eswar, Brian T. Chait, Michael
P. Rout, Andrej Sali.
Simplicity in fold composition, architecture, and evolution of the Nuclear Pore Complex.
Simplicity in fold composition, architecture, and evolution of the Nuclear Pore Complex.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sc. USA 14, (2006), 2172-2177.
Frank Alber, Michael F. Kim, Andrej Sali.
Structural Characterization of Assemblies from Overall Shape and Subcomplex Compositions.
Structural Characterization of Assemblies from Overall Shape and Subcomplex Compositions.
Structure 13, (2005), 435.
Damien Devos, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Frank Alber, Rosemary Williams, Brian T. Chait, Andrej Sali,
Michael P. Rout.
Evidence for a common evolutionary origin for coated vesicles and nuclear pore complexes.
Evidence for a common evolutionary origin for coated vesicles and nuclear pore complexes.
PLoS Biology, (2004), 2, e380.
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