Erec Stebbins (born 1969) is an American

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and

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. Head of

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's Laboratory of Structural Microbiology from 2001 to 2016 and currently Head of Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity at the

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, he is known for his contributions to the fields of

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and

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, studying the structure of disease-related proteins through the technique of

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. He is a published academic writer and has been cited by his peers for his work in

and

. He is also a novelist and author of

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( Daughter of Time Trilogy) and

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s ( The Ragnarök Conspiracy, Extraordinary Retribution).

Biography

Stebbins was born Charles Erec Stebbins on December 5, 1969. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WCGS) (formerly known as the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences) is a graduate college of Cornell University that was founded in 1952 as an academic partnership between t ...

in 1999. His Ph.D. thesis was title
''Structural Studies of the von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor and the Oncogene Chaperone Hsp90''
, completed in the laboratory of Nikola Pavletich. He conducted postdoctoral studies in

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, ...

in the laboratory of Jorge Galán at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he was hired as an assistant professor and made the Head of Laboratory of Structural Microbiology at the

. In 2006, he was promoted to Associate Professor. He is currently Head of the Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity at the

. His work has been profiled in the lay press at

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. In 2012, with the Prometheus Books imprint Seventh Street Books, Stebbins published The Ragnarök Conspiracy, a contemporary thriller centered on a plot by terrorists to instigate a global war between Western and Islamic nations. Stebbins has said that his debut novel was inspired by his witnessing the

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while he lived in

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Select publications

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Awards

*2008 EUREKA *2004 ICAAC Young Investigator Award *2003 NYSTAR James Watson Investigator *2000 Molecular Structure Corporation Future Investigator Award *1999 Julian R. Rachele Prize, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University

Personal life

Stebbins is married and has three children. He resides in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

References

External links

Author WebsiteGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ): Stebbins Web Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stebbins, Erec Living people 1969 births American microbiologists Oberlin College alumni Rockefeller University faculty Cornell University alumni