Dieter Söll

Dieter G. Söll
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Stuttgart
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known fortRNA
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsYale University

Dieter Gerhard Söll (born 1935) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Chemistry at the Yale University. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. from Stuttgart University in 1962 and did his postdoctoral work at University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1962-1965 with Har Gobind Khorana. He was briefly an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin before joining the Yale faculty in 1967 and has been there since. He was named a Sterling Professor in 2006.[1] As a postdoc with Jack Strominger, he identified tRNAs that were involved in peptidoglycan formation leading to the discovery of novel aminoacyl-tRNA functions. He later sequenced the selenocysteine tRNA.[2] His research is centered on the formation of aminoacyl-tRNA and tRNA synthetases. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1972 and 1989 and a Humboldt Fellow in 2000.[3] In addition to his academic work, he has been recognized as a leader in creating research opportunities for minority students notably by spearheading a program to bring students from Tougaloo College to Yale University for summer research in the early 1970s.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dieter Söll named Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry". Archived from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  2. ^ Schön, Astrid; Böck, August; Ott, Günther; Söll, Dieter (1 January 1989). "The selenocysteine-inserting opal suppressor serine tRNA from is highly unusual in structure and modification". Nucleic Acids Research. 17 (18): 7159–7165. doi:10.1093/nar/17.18.7159. PMC 334795. PMID 2529478.
  3. ^ "tRNA Involvement in Peptidoglycan Synthesis: the Work of Dieter Söll". Journal of Biological Chemistry. Retrieved 3 August 2012.