Cheryl A Kerfeld

Adjunct Associate Professor
PhD  Structural Biology    University of California, Los Angeles
B.A.   Biology and English    University of Minnesota

JGI, 2800 Mitchell Drive
Walnut Creek, California 94597
CKerfeld@lbl.gov
office: 925-296-5691   lab: 925-296-5691   fax:  510-642-4995

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At the Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Kerfeld heads the Education and Structural Genomics Programs.

Dr. Kerfeld's campus address:

Department of Plant & Microbial Biology
111 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Selected Publications (this century)

1. Kerfeld, C.A. and Simons R.W. The Undergraduate Genomics Research Initiative. PLoS Biology 5: 980-983, 2007.

2. Yeates T.O., Tsai, Y., Tanaka, S., Sawaya, M. R., and Kerfeld, C A. Self-Assembly in the Carboxysome: A Viral Capsid-like Protein Shell in Bacterial Cells. Biochemical Society Transactions 35: 508-511, 2007.

3. Tsai, Y., Sawaya, M.R., Cannon, G., Cai, F., Williams, E.B., Heinhorst, S., Kerfeld, C.A. and Yeates, T.O. The structure of the shell protein CsoS1A from Halothiobacillus neapolitanus and its implications for carboxysome function. PLoS Biology 5: 1-10, 2007.

4. Wilson, A., Boulay, C., Wilde, A., Kerfeld, C.A. and Kirilovsky, D. Light induced energy dissipation in iron-starved cyanobacteria: Roles of OCP and IsiA proteins. Plant Cell 19: 656-672, 2007.

5. Scott, K.T, … Kerfeld, C.A. et al. The genome of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent γ-proteobacterium Thiomicrospira crunogena is geared for obligate chemolithoautotrophy. PLoS Biology 4:2196-2212, 2006.

6. Sawaya, M.R., Cannon, G.C., Heinhorst, S., Tanaka, S., Williams, E.B., Yeates, T.O. and Kerfeld, C.A. The Structure of a Carboxysomal Shell Carbonic Anhydrase Reveals A Distinct Subclass of -Carbonic Anhydrase Bearing One Active Site for the Price of Two. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281: 7546-7555, 2006.

7. Wilson, A., Ajlani, G., Verbavatz, J-M., Vass, I., Kerfeld, C.A. and Kirilovsky, D. A soluble carotenoid protein involved in phycobilisome-related energy dissipation in cyanobacteria. Plant Cell 18: 992-1007, 2006.

8. Kerfeld, C.A., Sawaya, M.R., Tanaka, S., Phillips, M., Beeby, M. and Yeates, T.O. Protein structures forming the microcompartment shell of primitive bacterial organelles. Science 309: 936-938, 2005.

9. Levis, M., Denson, N. and Kerfeld, C. Undergraduate Students Conducting Research in the Life Sciences: Opportunities for Connected Learning. (Proceedings of the 2005 Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference), Education Resources Information Center, www.eric.ed.gov., 2005.

10. Polivka, T., Kerfeld, C.A., Pascher, T and Sundstrom V. Spectroscopic Properties of the Carotenoid 3’-hydroxyechinenone in the Orange Carotenoid Protein from the Cyanobacterium Arthrospira maxima. Biochemistry 44: 3994-4003, 2005.

11. Hervás, M., Díaz-Quintana, A., Kerfeld, C.A., Krogmann, D.W., De la Rosa, M.A. and Navarro, J.A. Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Lacks Specificity in its Interaction with Cytochrome c6 Electron donors. Photosynthesis Research 83: 329-333, 2005.

12. Burke, J., Kerfeld C.A., Mendelowitz, E., Drucker, E, Yan, W-H., Holton, T. and West R. Both and Neither: in silico v1.0, Ecce Homology. Leonardo: The Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology 4: 286-293, 2005.

13. Polívka, T., Kerfeld, C.A. and Sundström, V. Carotenoid excited state dynamics in the orange carotenoid protein from cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, A. van der Est and D. Bruce, eds., pp. 553-557, 2005.

14. Kerfeld, C. A. Structure and function of the water-soluble carotenoid-binding proteins of cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis Research 81: 215-225, 2004.

15. Kerfeld, C. A. Water Soluble Carotenoid Proteins of Cyanobacteria. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 430:2-9, 2004.

16. Levis, M., Denson, N. and Kerfeld, C. “Hands-on” Undergraduate Research Opportunities in the Life Sciences: Preparing the Next Generation of Biological Researchers. Proceedings of the 2004 Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Education Resources Information Center, www.eric.ed.gov., 2004.

17. Kerfeld, C. A., Yoshida, S., Tran, K.T., Yeates, T.O., Cascio, D., Bottin, H., Berthomieu, C., Sugiura, M. and Boussac, A. The 1.6 Å resolution structure of Fe-superoxide dismutase from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 8: 707-714, 2003.

18. Kerfeld, C. A., Sawaya, M.R., Bottin, H., Tran, K.T., Sugiura, M., Cascio, D., Yeates, T.O., Kirilovsky, D. and Boussac, A. The Soluble form of Cytochrome c550 from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus: Structural and EPR Characterization. Plant Cell Physiology 44: 697-706, 2003.

19. Kerfeld, C.A., Sawaya, M.R., Bramandam, V., Cascio, D., Ho, K.K. Trevithick-Sutton, C.C., Krogmann, D.W. and Yeates, T.O. The Crystal Structure of a Cyanobacterial Water-Soluble Carotenoid-Binding Protein. Structure 11: 55-65, 2003.

20. Kerfeld, C.A., Sawaya, M.R, Krogmann, D.W. and Yeates, T.O. Crystal Structure of Cytochrome c6 from Arthrospira maxima: An Assembly of 24 Subunits in a Nearly Symmetric Shell. Acta Crystallographica D58: 1104-1110, 2002.

21. Sawaya, M.R, Krogmann, D.W., Serag, A., Ho, K.K., Yeates, T.O. and Kerfeld, C.A. The Structures of Cytochrome c-549 and Cytochrome c6 from the Cyanobacterium Arthrospira maxima Biochemistry 40: 9215-9225, 2001.

22. Kerfeld, C.A., Levis, M. and Perry, J.P. Teaching and Exploring the Social Implications of Twenty-first Century Molecular Biology in a Laboratory-Based General Education Course. Innovative Higher Education 26: 87-102, 2001.