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Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

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Research Interests:

Bioorganic Chemistry, Biomimetic Chemistry, Protein Conformation and Dynamics, Macromolecular Design

Fellowships/Honors:

National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2007-2012; Alzheimer's Association New Investigator Award, 2005-2007; James D.Watson Investigator Award, 2004-2006; National Institutes of Health NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2002; Frank Goyan Award in Physical Chemistry at UCSF, 1998; University of California Regents Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1995.

Selected Works:

Maayan, G.; Ward, M.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2009) "Folded Biomimetic Oligomers for Enantioselective Catalysis" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 13679-13684.

Butterfoss, G. L.; Renfrew, P. D.; Kuhlman, B.; Kirshenbaum, K.; Bonneau, R. (2009) "A preliminary survey of the peptoid folding landscape" Journal of the American Chemical Society [In Print]

Maayan, G.; Ward, M.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2009) "Metallopeptoids" Chemical Communications 56-58.

Yoo, B.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2008). "Peptoid Architectures: Elaboration, Actuation, and Application" Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 12: 714-721

Shah, N. H.; Butterfoss, G. L.; Nguyen, K.; Yoo, B.; Bonneau, R.; Rabenstein, D. L.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2008) "Oligo(N-aryl glycines): A New Twist on Structured Peptoids" Journal of the American Chemical Society 130: 166222-16632.

Shin, S.-B.Y.; Yoo, B.; Todaro, L.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2007) "Cyclic Peptoids" Journal of the American Chemical Society 129: 3218-3225.

Holub, J.M.; Jang, H.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2007). "Fit To Be Tied: Conformation-Directed Macrocyclization of Peptoid Foldamers" Organic Letters 9: 3275-3278.

Anderson, E.A.;  Isaacman, S.; Peabody, D.S.; Wang, E.Y.; Canary, J.W.; Kirshenbaum, K. (2006) "Viral nanoparticles donning a paramagnetic coat: conjugation of MRI contrast agents to the MS2 capsid" Nano Letters 6: 1160-1164.


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