Stephen C. Harvey (born 1940) is an American structural biologist with research interest in

nucleic acid Nucleic acids are large biomolecules that are crucial in all cells and viruses. They are composed of nucleotides, which are the monomer components: a pentose, 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base. The two main classes of nuclei ...

s, the

ribosome Ribosomes () are molecular machine, macromolecular machines, found within all cell (biology), cells, that perform Translation (biology), biological protein synthesis (messenger RNA translation). Ribosomes link amino acids together in the order s ...

virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living Cell (biology), cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Viruses are ...

structure and

high density lipoprotein High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins. Lipoproteins are complex particles composed of multiple proteins which transport all fat molecules (lipids) around the body within the water outside cells. They are t ...

. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysic

at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

and professor emeritus and

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eminent scholar emeritus in th
School of Biology
at the

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. Harvey did his undergraduate work at the

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(Berkeley), where he received his A.B. degree in physics. In the 1960s, he worked as a rocket test engineer on the

Apollo program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which Moon landing, landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in sp ...

(the lunar mission project) and served with the

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, before entering graduate school in physics at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

, where he received his PhD in

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations ...

in 1971. Before moving to Georgia Tech in 2003, Harvey was professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the

University of Alabama at Birmingham The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1969 and part of the University of Alabama System, UAB has grown to be the state's largest employer, with more than ...

(UAB). He is past president of the

Biophysical Society The Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. Founded in 1958, the Society currently consists of over 7,000 members in academia, government, an ...

and co-author, with J. Andrew McCammon, of the classic book on

Molecular Dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the Motion (physics), physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamics ( ...

, ''Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids'' (

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

, 1987; ). Harvey is married to the artist Marie Weaver. They live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Marie Weaver and Steve Harvey Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graphic DesignThe Marie Weaver and Steve Harvey Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graphic Design
. was set up in 2003 by the

in honor of associate professor of

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art that involves creating visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of ...

Marie Weaver and her husband, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Steve Harvey for their strong support of the arts at UAB.

Selected publications

*J.A. McCammon and S.C. Harvey, Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (Cambridge University Press, London, 1987). *S.C. Harvey, "The Scrunchworm Hypothesis: Transitions Between A-DNA and B-DNA Provide the Driving Force for Genome Packaging in Double-Stranded DNA Bacteriophages," J Struct Biol 189:1-8 (2015). *M.R. Smyda and S.C. Harvey, “The Entropic Cost of Polymer Confinement,” J Phys Chem B 116, 10928-10934 (2012). *S.C. Harvey, A.S. Petrov, B. Devkota and M.B. Boz, “Computational Approaches to Modeling Viral Structure and Assembly,” Methods Enzymol 487, 513-543 (2011). *A.S. Petrov and S.C. Harvey, “Packaging Double-Helical DNA into Viral Capsids: Structures, Forces and Energetics,” Biophys J 95, 497-502 (2008). *J.A. Mears, M.R. Sharma, R.R. Gutell, A.S. McCook, P.E. Richardson, T.R. Caulfield, R.K. Agrawal and S.C. Harvey, “A Structural Model of the Mitochondrial Ribosome,” J. Mol. Biol. 358, 193-212 (2006). *J.P. Segrest, M.K. Jones, A.E. Klon, C.J. Sheldahl and S.C. Harvey, "Apolipoprotein A-I in Discoidal High Density Lipoprotein: A Detailed Molecular Belt Model,” J. Biol. Chem. 274, 31755-31758 (1999).

References

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