1. Squire Booker is an American biochemist at The Pennsylvania State University.
17 Facts About Squire Booker
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Squire Booker is an associate editor for the American Chemical Society Biochemistry Journal, is a Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and an Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science at Penn State University.
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Squire Booker grew up in the segregated community of Beaumont, Texas.
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Squire Booker was raised by his grandmother with the help of three uncles.
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Squire Booker's career was particularly influenced by two of his uncles.
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Squire Booker became a professor at Penn State University in 1999, where he earned tenure in 2005.
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Squire Booker is a professor of biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Penn State University.
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Squire Booker's research explores how enzymes change their catalytic abilities due to metal ions or metal clusters.
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Squire Booker's research focuses on enzymes containing iron-sulfur clusters which catalyze chemical reactions.
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Squire Booker focuses on the Radical S-adenosylamethionine Superfamily which is a group of enzymes that encounters radical chemistry in post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications of DNA.
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Squire Booker determined the three-dimensional structure of the RImN protein from the bacteria.
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Squire Booker is active in promoting diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics especially towards undergraduate and graduate students.
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Squire Booker was a chair on the Minority Affairs Committee of the American Association of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Squire Booker was the guest speaker at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony.
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Squire Booker was chosen due to his impressive contributions to the scientific community and his activism towards inclusion of all in STEM.
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Squire Booker encouraged the graduates to take responsibility and give back to society.
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Squire Booker has published over 100 scientific publications in journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.