Olke C. Uhlenbeck
| O. C. Uhlenbeck | |
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| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields |
Biochemistry Biophysics |
| Institutions |
University of Illinois University of Colorado Northwestern University |
| Alma mater |
University of Michigan Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Doty |
| Known for | RNA synthesis from synthetic templates, RNA-protein interactions, RNA Biochemistry |
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His father was the famous Physicist George Eugene Uhlenbeck.
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Olke C. Uhlenbeck is a biochemist presently at Northwestern University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles. His research group has led to many breakthroughs in RNA biochemistry, most notably the enzymatic synthesis of RNAs from synthetic DNA templates using T7 RNA polymerase. Olke was a founding member of the RNA society.
As a graduate student in Paul Doty's lab, Olke showed that the anticodon of tRNA was accessible to hybridization to oligonucleotides. Later, as a Miller Research Fellow in Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.'s lab he helped define an original model for RNA secondary structure prediction.
Olke is a longstanding contributor to RNA biochemistry. His group has shown many important findings as well as developed important tools for RNA biochemists. Notable contributions include:
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