Kate Pletneva holds a M.S. in Chemistry from the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She received a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Iowa State University under the guidance of Nenad M. Kostić, where her studies included work in recognition and electron transfer of metalloproteins. Following her graduate work, she held a postdoctoral position in Iowa State’s Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology in Amy H. Andreotti's group, studying protein-protein interactions that occur during signal transduction in T-cells by multidimensional NMR. She then did further postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology with Harry B. Gray, where she conducted research on cytochrome c folding with time-resolved fluorescence energy-transfer techniques. Kate's work at Dartmouth focuses on mechanistic studies of protein conformational rearangements, redox reactivity, and their interplay in biological signaling. Her research and teaching have been recognised by the 2010 NSF CAREER Award and The Dartmouth Class of 1962 Junior Faculty Fellowship for outstanding teaching.
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Fudan University, Ph.D. |
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University of Science and Technology of China Electron transfer in heme proteins |
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University of Florida Biophysical characterization of C. elegans cytochromes |
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Albion College Ligand-switching in Geobacter sulfurreducens heme sensor protein |
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Dartmouth Class of 2014 |
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Dartmouth Class of 2012
Cytochrome c in apoptosis |
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Dartmouth Class of 2013
2010 Zabriskie Summer Fellow Cytochrome c in apoptosis |
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Yuning Hong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ph. D. Cytrochrome c cardiolipin interactions |
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Indika Bandara University of South Carolina, Ph. D. Geobacter sulfurreducensheme sensors and redox-linked ligand switching |
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Xiaomin Fang Brandeis University, Ph. D. New protein dynamics probes, functional refolding |
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Erik Snider Dartmouth Class of 2011 Now at Columbia (M.D. program) |
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Julia Muenzner Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 2011 DAAD Fellow |
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Jonas Hanske Freie Universität 2010 DAAD Fellow Cytochrome c in apoptosis Now at Max Planck Institute, Ph.D. |
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Natalie Burkhard Dartmouth College Class of 2012 Heme ligand-substitution reactions |
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Joe Pound University of Bath New protein dynamics probes, functional refolding |
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Danielle Pottinger Dartmouth Class of 2010 Now at Columbia (M.D. program) Honors Project: C. elegans cytochromes |
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Katherine Schiavoni Dartmouth Class of 2009Now at Harvard (M. D. program) Geobacter heme sensors |
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Eva Vennmann Hamburg University, Germany Geobacter heme sensors |
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Rita Ciambra University of New HampshireNow a high-school teacher Geobacter heme sensors |
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Zach Foda Dartmouth Class of 2009Now at SUNY Stony Brook |
