Curriculum Vitae (Updated on May 10, 2008)

Education

1982-1987 B.A., Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Honors Thesis Title: The Structure of Epoxybaccinolide A Determined by X-ray Crystallography
Thesis Advisor: Professor Jon Clardy, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University

1987-1992 Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Thesis Title: Site-Specific Cleavage of Genomic DNA Mediated by Triple Helix Formation
Thesis Advisor: Professor Peter B. Dervan, Department of Chemistry

1992-1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Project Title: Molecular Recognition of an RNA Duplex by a Ribozyme.
Research Advisor: Professor Thomas R. Cech

Faculty Appointment

1995-1998 Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

1999-2001 Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

1999-2001 Associate Professor of Chemistry (joint appointment), Yale University

2001- Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

2001- Professor of Chemistry (joint appointment), Yale University

2006-2009 Chair of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

Honors and Awards

1982-87 Trustees Scholar, four-year, full tuition scholarship, Brigham Young University

1986 Carl Harvis Memorial Undergraduate Research Fellow, Cornell University

1987 Summa Cum Laude, Brigham Young University

1987 Honors Graduate, Brigham Young University

1988-1992 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow, Caltech

1989-1992 Achievement Reward for College Students Scholar, Caltech

1992-95 Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship,
Sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder

1996-1999 Junior Faculty Research Award, American Cancer Society, Yale University

1997-1999 Beckman Young Investigator Award, Yale University

1997-2000 Searle Scholar Award, Yale University

1998-1999 Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award, Yale University

2002-2006 Beginning Investigator Award, American Cancer Society, Yale University

2004 Dylan Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences, Yale University

2006-2010 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

2007 Graduate Mentoring Award in the Sciences, Yale University

2008 Schering Plough Research Institute Award from the ASBMB

Current Grant Support

NIGMS 54839 (Strobel) 01/01/06-12/31/09
Mechanism of ribosome catalyzed peptide bond formation

NSF-DAAD INT-0339595 (Strobel-Rodnina) 1/1/04-12/31/07 (one year no cost ext.) US-Germany Cooperative Research: Mechanistic Investigation of the Ribosomal Peptidyl Transferase Reaction

NIH/NIGMS GM022778-30 (Moore) 4/1/06-3/31/09 Program in macromolecular structure, motion, control

NSF (Strobel) 06/01/06-05/31/09 Complex riboswitch structural and biochemical analysis

HHMI Professorship 09/01/06-8/30/10 Bioprospecting for novel natural products in the world's rainforests

NSF INT-0636212 (Strobel) 09/01/06-08/30/08 NSF supplement to the HHMI award providing travel and summer research stipend for two undergrads and a secondary education science teacher