Nicholas V. Hud is a biophysicist, biochemist, origins of life researcher, and Regents’ Professor and Julius Brown Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Nicholas V. Hud
Born
Los Angeles, California
Alma materLoyola Marymount University, UC-Davis
Scientific career
InstitutionsGeorgia Tech
Doctoral advisorsRod Balhorn
Websitehttps://ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu/hud/

Early life and education

Hud was born in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.S. degree from Loyola Marymount University. His Ph.D. was conferred by the University of California, Davis under the mentorship of Professor Rod Balhorn. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology and Biotechnology Research Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in biophysics at UCLA with Professors Juli Feigon and Frank Anet.

Career

Hud joined the faculty of the school of chemistry and biochemistry at Georgia Tech in 1999 and was named Regents' Professor in 2016 and Julius Brown Professor in 2021. He served as director of the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution,[1] from 2010-2021. He currently serves as associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB). Prof. Hud was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019, Fellow of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life[2] in 2014, and was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer[3] 2015-2017.

Research

Hud uses various experimental techniques to elucidate the structures and physical properties of DNA and RNA polymers, including investigations of how these molecules are packaged within living cells and viruses.[4] Much of his current research focuses on the origins of life[5] [6] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome | Center for Chemical Evolution". originoflife.info.
  2. ↑ "ISSOL | The International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life – The International Astrobiology Society".
  3. ↑ "2016-2017 Lecturers". www.sigmaxi.org.
  4. ↑ Hud, N.V.; Allen, M.J.; Downing, K.H.; Lee, J.; Balhorn, R. (June 1993). "Identification of the Elemental Packing Unit of DNA in Mammalian Sperm Cells by Atomic Force Microscopy". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 193 (3): 1347–1354. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1993.1773. PMID 8323555.
  5. ↑ Forsythe, Jay G.; Yu, Sheng-Sheng; Mamajanov, Irena; Grover, Martha A.; Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan; Fernández, Facundo M.; Hud, Nicholas V. (17 August 2015). "Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (34): 9871–9875. doi:10.1002/anie.201503792. PMC 4678426. PMID 26201989.
  6. ↑ "Asteroids may help explain how life began on Earth". Newsweek. 18 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "How the first nucleotides might have formed on Earth". cen.acs.org. 27 April 2016.
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