David M. Jameson, Ph.D.
Professor
Area of Expertise ~ Protein-Protein interactions and endocytosis. fluorescence spectroscopy
Email: djameson@hawaii.edu
Phone: +1 808-956-8332
Biography: David Jameson received a BS in Chemistry from Ohio State University and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. His thesis advisor was Gregorio Weber, considered to be the father of modern fluorescence spectroscopy. He carried out postdoctoral research first at the Universidad de Paris-Sud working with Synchrotron Radiation and then returned to Gregorio Weber’s laboratory to continue postdoctoral research. He next joined the Pharmacology Department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as an Assistant Professor after which he joined the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at the University of Hawaiʻi. He is presently a Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology in the John A. Burns School of Medicine. His research has always involved application of fluorescence methodologies to study protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions both in vitro and in live cells.
Research: My research is primarily concerns Biophysical studies on protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions and protein dynamics, both in vitro and in live cells. The specific proteins we currently study, using sophisticated fluorescence spectroscopy/microscopy, include dynamin and Arc/Arg3.1. I am the author of the book “Introduction to Fluorescence” and am currently working on the second edition. I am on the Editorial Boards of Analytical Biochemistry, Methods and Applications of Fluorescence and the International Journal of Molecular Science. Along with my long-term colleague, Dr. Enrico Gratton at University of California, Irvine, I organize the International Weber Symposia which are held approximately every 3 year. I regularly give lectures on Protein Structure and Biosynthesis in the graduate CMB621 course.