Jacqueline Barton worked as a Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College, and at Columbia University before joining the California Institute of Technology.
23 Facts About Jacqueline Barton
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Jacqueline Barton currently is the John G Kirkwood and Arthur A Noyes Professor of Chemistry.
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Jacqueline Barton Ann Kapelman was born on May 7,1952, in New York City.
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Jacqueline Barton's father served in the Assembly for nearly a decade before serving as a trial judge in the New York Supreme Court next two decades.
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Jacqueline Barton's father was one of the trial judges in the Son of Sam serial murder case.
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Jacqueline Barton Kapelman attended Riverdale Country School for Girls in Riverdale, New York, where her math teacher, Mrs Rosenberg, insisted that she be allowed to take calculus at the boys' school.
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Jacqueline Barton loved laboratory work and chemical transformations and found Segal an inspiration as a teacher.
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Jacqueline Barton then studied inorganic chemistry at Columbia University under the supervision of Stephen J Lippard.
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Jacqueline Barton earned a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1979, addressing The structure and chemical reactivity of a blue platinum complex: the interaction of antitumor platinum drugs and metallointercalation reagent with nucleic acids.
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Jacqueline Barton used nuclear magnetic resonance imaging technology to examine the metabolism of yeast cells.
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Jacqueline Barton became a Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College from 1980 to 1982, and began to develop her own laboratory, the Jacqueline Barton Research Group.
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Jacqueline Barton became a full professor in 1986 and was the first woman to receive tenure in the Chemistry department at Columbia.
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Jacqueline Barton's research focused on the use of organo-ruthenium complexes to examine the physical structure of DNA.
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In 1989, Jacqueline Barton moved to Caltech, where her research has focused on charge transport in DNA.
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Jacqueline Barton has taught more than 100 graduate and postdoctoral students, many of whom are women.
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Jacqueline Barton became the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry in 1997.
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Jacqueline Barton was named chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of California Institute of Technology, effective July 1,2009.
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Jacqueline Barton has been a Member of the Board of Dow Chemical since 1993.
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Jacqueline Barton has served on the Gilead Sciences Scientific Advisory Board and recently became a member of Gilead's Board of Directors.
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Jacqueline Barton introduced the application of transition metal complexes to probe recognition and reactions of double helical DNA.
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Jacqueline Barton has designed chiral metal complexes which mimic the properties of DNA-binding proteins, allowing other researchers the capability to simulate and analyze experiments in this nature.
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Jacqueline Barton additionally established that DNA charge transport chemistry is extremely sensitive to intervening perturbations in the DNA base stack, as with single base mismatches or lesions.
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Jacqueline Barton's experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer.