Awards
2018 - 2022
Member, MSFB Study Section
Sponsor: Center for Scientific Review, NIH/PHS
2017 - 2019
Secretary, Medical Faculty Council
Location: University of Rochester SMD
2015
Faculty Teaching Award in Biophysics
Sponsor: University of Rochester SMD
Location: Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics
2011 - 2016
Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Sponsor: ASBMB
2010 - 2012
Executive Committee Member, CHESS Users' Group
Sponsor: Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Ithaca NY
2010
Faculty Teaching Award in Biophysics
Location: University of Rochester SMD | Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics
2007 - 2009
Elected Secretary (The Board of Directors)
Sponsor: The Pittsburgh Diffraction Society
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
2005
Faculty Teaching Award in Biophysics
Location: University of Rochester SMD | Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics
1996 - 1999
Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow
Sponsor: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Location: Dept. Structural Biology, Stanford, CA
1996
Individual NRSA Post-doctoral Fellowship (declined)
Sponsor: NIH
Location: Stanford, CA
1996
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Post-Doctoral Award (declined)
Sponsor: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Location: Stanford, CA
1995 - 1996
Dean's Fellow
Location: Stanford University School of Medicine
1992 - 1995
NIH Biophysics Training Grant Recipient
Sponsor: NIH/NIGMS
1990
Elected Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Location: Iota Chapter of California
1989
Edmondson Summer Research Fellow
Sponsor: Dept. of Pathology
Location: University of Southern California
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Patents
Patent Title: Nucleic Acid Binding Compounds and Methods of Use
Patent #: 9,212,205
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2015
Country: United States
Invented By:
Peter Gareiss, Brian R McNaughton, Benjamin Locke Miller, Krzysztof Sobczak, Charles A Thornton, Joseph E Wedekind
Patent Title: Methods and Compositions Related to the Structure and Function of APOBEC3G
Patent #: 8,999,317
Issue Date: Apr 07, 2015
Country: United States
Invented By:
Ryan P Bennett, Harold C Smith, Joseph E Wedekind
Patent Title: Methods and Compositions Related to the Structure and Function of APOBEC3G
Patent #: 2104516
Issue Date: Jan 07, 2015
Country: Europe
Invented By:
Harold C Smith, Joseph E Wedekind
Patent Title: Methods and Compositions Related to the Structure and Function of APOBEC3G
Patent #: DE2104516
Issue Date: Jan 07, 2015
Country: Germany
Invented By:
Harold C Smith, Joseph E Wedekind
Patent Title: Methods and Compositions Related to the Structure and Function of APOBEC3G
Patent #: GB2104516
Issue Date: Jan 07, 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Invented By:
Harold C Smith, Joseph E Wedekind
Patent Title: Context-Dependent-Inhibitors of Cytidine Deaminases and Uses Thereof
Patent #: 8,158,770
Issue Date: Apr 17, 2012
Country: United States
Invented By:
Harold C Smith, Joseph E Wedekind
Patent Title: Anti-HIV Peptides
Patent #: 10,538,556
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2020
Country: United States
Invented By:
Ivan A Belashov, David Crawford, Brian R McNaughton, Joseph E Wedekind
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Publications
Journal Articles
11/10/2020
Chavali SS, Cavender CE, Mathews DH, Wedekind JE. "Arginine Forks Are a Widespread Motif to Recognize Phosphate Backbones and Guanine Nucleobases in the RNA Major Groove." Journal of the American Chemical Society.. 2020 Nov 10; Epub 2020 Nov 10.
10/13/2020
Chavali SS, Mali SM, Jenkins JL, Fasan R, Wedekind JE. "Co-crystal structures of HIV TAR RNA bound to lab-evolved proteins show key roles for arginine relevant to the design of cyclic peptide TAR inhibitors." The Journal of biological chemistry.. 2020 Oct 13; Epub 2020 Oct 13.
6/29/2020
Schroeder GM, Dutta D, Cavender CE, Jenkins JL, Pritchett EM, Baker CD, Ashton JM, Mathews DH, Wedekind JE. "Analysis of a preQ1-I riboswitch in effector-free and bound states reveals a metabolite-programmed nucleobase-stacking spine that controls gene regulation." Nucleic acids research.. 2020 Jun 29; Epub 2020 Jun 29.
Books & Chapters
2015
Chapter Title: Tails of Three Knotty Switches: How PreQ1 Riboswitch Structures Control Protein Translation
Book Title: eLifeSciences
Author List: Belashov I.A., Dutta D., Salim M., Wedekind J.E.
Published By: John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2015
2014
Chapter Title: Metal Dependence of Ligand Binding and Heavy-Atom Derivatization of Evolutionarily Distinct PreQ1 Riboswitches
Book Title: Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids
Author List: Joseph E. Wedekind, Joseph A. Liberman, Jermaine L. Jenkins, Mohammad Salim
Published By: Springer 2014
2010
Chapter Title: Structural aspects of metal ion binding in small natural and artificial RNA enzymes
Book Title: Metal Ions in Life Sciences: Structural and Catalytic Roles of Metals in RNA
Author List: J.E. Wedekind
Edited By: A. Sigel, S. Sigel, R. Sigel
Published By: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
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