Paul Adams CV

Curriculum Vitae Paul D. Adams

Title

Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley
Head, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology
Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute

Address

BLDG 64R0121,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
1 Cyclotron Road,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Email: PDAdams@lbl.gov or pdadams@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-486-4225
Fax: 510-486-5909

Education

1992-1997		Postdoctoral Training, Yale University
1988-1992		Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh
1985-1988		B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Appointments

2007-Present		Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute
2007-Present		Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, CA
2005-Present		Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
2004-Present		Head, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
2003-2007		Deputy Principal Investigator, Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
2002-2003		Department Deputy, Structural Computational and Theoretical Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
1999-2005		Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
1998-1999		Senior Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, MD
1998-1999		Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1997-1998		Associate Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (2004)
Technology Transfer Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (2003)
Upjohn Prize for Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (1988)
Science Faculty Bursary, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (1986-1987)
Class medal for Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (1986)

Professional Activities

Reviewer for:Acta Crystallographica Section D, Biophysical Journal, J. Chem. Inf. and Modeling, Protein Science, Proteins, J. Mol. Biol., JACS, and Structure.
Member, wwPDB Validation Task Force (2008-Present)
Member, NIGMS/NCRR NSLSII advisory panel (2008)
Reviewer, NCRR P41 special emphasis panel (2008)
Ad hoc member, NIH Molecular Structure and Function D study section (2008-Present)
Reviewer, DOE INCITE program (2007)
Co-teaching of UC Berkeley Chem 272A/B graduate class (2006-Present)
Member, Protein Information Management System (PIMS) Scientific Advisory Board (2006-Present)
Reviewer, NCI Intramural Structural Biology Program (2004)
Chair, NIH Protein Structure Initiative data management committee (2003-Present)
Member, International structural genomics organization task force on data deposition (2002-Present)
Co-chair, Computational Methods, American Crystallographic Association Meeting, Salt Lake City (2006)
Chair, Diffraction Methods Gordon Conference, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (2006)
Co-chair, Computational Methods, American Crystallographic Association Meeting, Chicago (2004)
Co-chair, Diffraction Methods Gordon Conference, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (2004)

Meeting and Workshop Presentations

2008

XXIst IUCr Congress and General Assembly, Osaka, Japan, August 23rd-27th.
Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology, Gordon Research Conference, Lewiston, Maine, USA, July 13-18th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Beijing, China, 10th-15th.
PDB New Validation Tools, Cambridge, UK, April 13th-16th.
Pittsburgh Conference, New Orleans, USA, March 4th-5th.
Recent trends in Macromolecular Structure and Function, Chennai, India, January 7th-14th.

2007

16th CoLuAa meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, November 9th.
X-ray Crystallography Computing Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, November 7th-8th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 26th-30th.
RapiData course, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, USA., April 23rd-27th.
CCP4/MAX-INF Workshop on Phasing and Refinement, York University, UK, April 10-15th.
The Molecular Replacement method, CCP4 Study Weekend, University of Reading, UK, January 4-6th.

2006

Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 26th-31st.
International Conference on Structural Genomics workshop, Yokohama, Japan, October 19th-20th.
Distributed Data Analysis for Neutron Scattering Experiments (DANSE) meeting, Caltech, USA, August 15th-16th.
European Crystallography Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, August 9th-10th.
Neutron Diffraction Workshop, American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 22nd-26th. [co-organizer]
Canadian Light Source 9th Annual Users Meeting, Saskatoon, Canada, June 15th-17th.
8th International School on the Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules, Como, Italy, May 21st-25th.
CCP4/MAX-INF Workshop on Phasing and Refinement, Barcelona, Spain, March 1st-7th.
Trends in Macromolecular Structure and Function, Chennai, India, January 18th-20th.

2005

EMBL M2M Practical Course, EMBL Hamburg, Germany, November 9th-15th.
Get Phases workshop, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 29th-November 4th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 20th-24th.
NCCR Practical Course, Swiss Light Source, Villigen, Switzerland, October 3rd-7th.
SSRL Summer School, Stanford, USA, September 13-15th.
12th Northern Protein Structural Workshop, Galashiels, Scotland, September 7th-9th.
EMBO Anomalous Diffraction Workshop, ESRF, Grenoble, France, June 15th-22nd.
American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 28th-June 1st.
Evolving Methods in Crystallography, Erice, Italy, May 11th-22nd.
Data management for high-throughput crystallography, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, February 9th-11th.

2004

American Crystallographic Association mmCIF workshop, CARB, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 16th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 30th-November 2nd.
NIH Protein Structure Initiative Advisory Committee meeting, NIH, Bethesda, USA, October 28th.
ALS Users Meeting, Macromolecular Crystallography Workshop, USA, October 19th.
SSRL Summer School, Stanford, USA, August 16-20th.
EMBO course on automated macromolecular structure solution, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 23rd-June 2nd.

2003

UC Berkeley department of Bio-engineering colloquium talk, Berkeley, December 18th.
NIH Protein Structure Initiative Advisory Committee meeting, NIH, Bethesda, USA, December 2nd.
Frontiers in Structural Biology Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, September 11-12th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 25th-30th.
American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Covington, Kentucky, USA, July 26-30th.
NIH Data Management Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, July 10-11th. [co-organizer]
EMBO Anomalous Diffraction Workshop, ESRF, Grenoble, France, June 17-23rd.
International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology, Tsukuba, Japan, May 28th-31st.
Data management aspects of high-throughput structure determination, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK, March 14th-15th.

2002

Getting the most from biological data: bridging the gap between experiment, analysis and simulation, LBNL offices, Washington DC, December 13th.
Automation for High Throughput Structure Determination, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA, December 6th-8th. [co-organizer]
High-throughput Synchrotron Crystallography, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, November 20th-22nd.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 25th-28th.
Automation of X-ray Structure Determination for Structural Genomics, Berlin, Germany, October 8th-9th.
Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, Gordon Research Conference, New London, Connecticut, USA, July 14-19th.
Berkeley & Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Summer School, Stanford, USA, July 8-12th.
Structural Genomics Informatics and Software Integration Workshop, San Antonio, USA, May 22nd-23rd.
EMBO Course on Automated Macromolecular Structure Solution, Heidelberg, Germany, May 7-16th.
Interdisciplinary workshop promoting collaboration in high-throughput X-ray structure determination, Santa Fe, USA, March 22-23rd. [co-organizer]
High-throughput structure determination, CCP4 Study Weekend, University of York, UK, January 4-5th.

2001

Polarizability in Biomolecular Simulations, Utah, USA, December 13th-14th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 19th-21st.
ALS Users Meeting, Macromolecular Crystallography Workshop, USA, October 16th.
EMBO/MAX-INF Anomalous Diffraction Workshop, ESRF, Grenoble, France, June 18-23rd.
West Coast Protein Crystallography Workshop, Asilomar, USA, March 25th-28th.
ESRF High-throughput workshop, ESRF, Grenoble, France, February 20-21st.
CCP4 Workshop on Refinement of Macromolecular Structure, York University, UK, January 3-9th.

2000

Computational methods in structural biology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, December 5th.
SCBMB seminar, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, November 6th.
RTG Student Seminar, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, November 16th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 21-23rd.
SSRL Summer School, Stanford, USA, September 18-23rd.
Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, Gordon Research Conference, Andover New Hampshire, USA, July 2-7th.
EMBO workshop for automated macromolecular structure solution, EMBL, Grenoble, France, March 15-25th.
CNS workshop, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, February 7-8th.

1999

High-throughput methods for structural genomics, Argonne National Lab, USA, November 15-16th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 25-27th.
International School of Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules, Barcelona, Spain, September 9-15th.
IUCr Crystallographic Computing School, Cambridge, UK, August 14-20th.
XVIIIth IUCr Congress and General Assembly, Glasgow, UK, August 4-13th.
ACA Summer Course in Crystallography, University of Georgia, USA July 12-24th.
Automation of Structure Determination workshop, Brookhaven National Lab, USA, June 20-21st.
29th Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallography Workshop, Rockville, USA, April 28-30th.
CNS Workshop, University of Georgia, USA, April 21st.

1998

EC and CCP4 Workshop on Refinement of Macromolecular Structure, York University, UK, December 14-20th.
Advanced School of Macromolecular Crystallography, Sao Carlos, Brazil, November 29th - December 6th.
Macromolecular Crystallography Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, October 25-27th.
Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, Gordon Research Conference, Andover New Hampshire, USA, June 21-26th.
Modelling and membrane proteins, Biochemical Society UK Spring Meeting, Southampton, UK, March 31st.

1997

CCP4 Refinement and Validation Workshop, York University, UK, September 1-6th.
Validation and Refinement of Macromolecular Structures, Oporto, Portugal, August 29-30th.
Modelling of Membrane Proteins, University of Toronto, Canada, May 5th.
West Coast Crystallography Workshop, Asilomar, USA, March 15-18th.

Prior to 1997

Macromolecular Refinement, CCP4 Study Weekend, Chester College, Chester, UK, January 5-6th (1996).
IMA Program on Protein Structure and Dynamics, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, July 18-22nd (1994).
CECAM Workshop on Simulations of biological macromolecules: improving sampling with parallelism and other techniques. Orsay, Paris, November 15-17th (1993).