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Haw Yang
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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Email: hawyang@berkeley.edu
Office: D46 Hildebrand
Lab: DG30 Hildebrand |
Phone: (510) 643-7344
Fax: (510) 643-3546
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Research Interests:
Physical Chemistry and Biophysics of Single Biological Macromolecules -- Optical single-molecule spectroscopy is developed and utilized to investigate the dynamics of single biological macromolecules.
Whether acting alone or working together, biological macromolecules are capable of performing remarkably different functions. Such functional diversity arises from the structural complexity of biomolecular assemblies. The manner by which the conformation of an assembled complex changes to accomplish its tasks, amid the continual and random influence of solvent and other biological macromolecules, is a key element to our fundamental understanding of the structure-function relationship. Optical single-molecule spectroscopy provides direct microscopic information regarding the distribution of molecular properties, the time sequence of events, and insight to the underlying cause of changes. These advantageous features make optical single-molecule spectroscopy a powerful tool for investigating the complicated biological machinery in molecular detail.
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Biography:
Haw Yang attended
National Taiwan University, where he
was a Yuan Lee Scholar, and received
a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1991.
After two years of mandatory military
service, he attended graduate school
at the University of California, Berkeley,
where he worked under the supervision
of Charles Harris. His Ph.D. thesis concerned
the mechanisms and dynamics of photo-induced
chemical bond activation by organometallic
compounds. In 1999, he went to Harvard
University where he worked with Sunney
Xie as a postdoctoral research assistant.
It was at this time that he first became
involved in research related to single-molecule
biophysics. In 2002, he joined the faculty
of the University of California, Berkeley,
as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
He is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and
has received the CAREER award from the
National Science Foundation and the Hellman
Family Faculty Award.
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