Matt Hockin

College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Alums

Class of 1993 Saint John's University Alumni

PhD, Biochemistry, University of Vt.; 1998

Post Doc, University of Vermont, College of Medicine

Matt Hockin writes:

I completed my Ph.D. (Nov 10th 1998) in Biochemisty at the University of Vermont where I am currently continuing my training as a post-doctoral associate with Dr. Kenneth G. Mann and our crystalographer collaborater (and part time, my boss) Dr. Stephen Everse. We are working on solving the structure of the coagulation cofactor factor Va. I normally would not have stayed on at my graduate institution for a post-doc but decided that the possibility of solving this structure (I was able to produce crystals in my last graduate year) was too much to pass up. That combined with the fact our institution has hired 4 X-ray crystalographers (Dr. Everse = 1/4) and purchased a state of the art source with two beamlines, cryo, and high pressure Xenon cells for phasing, was too much to pass up. At any rate, I will be here at UVM (in the department of Biochemisty, College of Medicine) until August 14th 1999. At that time I will be moving to the University of Utah (Salt Lake) as a Howard Hughes Post-doctoral Associate working in the lab of Dr. Mario Capecchi. I am very excited about working with Dr. Capecchi in examining the role of the paralogous Hox gene family in mouse development.

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