Philip (Phil) C. Bevilacqua is a biological chemist. He was born on September 7, 1965, in North Collins, NY. He currently serves as a distinguished professor at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Education

Academic work

After being mentored by Tom Cech, Bevilacqua became interested in the folding of RNA and its interactions with chemistry. His research looks at how RNA affects biological processes. He studies viral replication in humans and the responses to abiotic stresses in plants. Some approaches that his lab uses are rapid mixing kinetics, fluorescence spectroscopy, UV melting, site-directed mutagenesis, combinatorial selection of RNA (or SELEX), Raman spectroscopy, NMR, SAXS, and X-ray crystallography.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Philip Bevilacqua, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology". science.psu.edu. Retrieved January 20, 2022.


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