Roger Y. Tsien
American biochemist (1952-2016) · United States · Academics · Died at 64
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Paul Krugman, Roger Tsien, Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, Nobel Prize Laureates (2008), at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm.
Animation of green fluorescent protein, which shows the overall protein structure (green) and the inner fluorescent chromophore (yellow). PDB: 1EMA
A colorful series of fluorescent proteins before (top) and after (bottom) excitation, which were engineered by the Tsien lab.
Bacterial colonies expressing the various red fluorescent proteins engineered by the Tsien lab, which were plated by the group to spell out their namesake (2002).Awards
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Roger Yonchien Tsien was an American biochemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Tsien was also a pioneer of calcium imaging.
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