Dr. Jay Groves

Biography

Jay T. Groves received his B.S. degree in Physics and Chemistry from Tufts University and completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics under Professors Steven Boxer and Harden McConnell at Stanford University. He spent a year as a visiting scholar at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, becoming the Division Director's Fellow at the Physical Biosciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2001, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007, and to Professor in 2010. In 2008, Professor Groves was appointed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He has received several awards including the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in Biomedical Sciences (2000), the Searle Scholars Award (2002), the MIT TR100 (2003), the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2004), and the NSF CAREER Award (2005). He served as an Associate Editor for the Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry in 2006. His research focuses on the role of spatial organization in biochemical reaction systems of living cells, exploring how molecular processes in life occur in elaborate spatial patterns and how the interplay of spatial organization and chemical reactions in living systems adds a fascinating new dimension to chemistry in biology.

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