Kristin Smith Koutmou

Kristin Smith Koutmou, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Post Doctoral Fellow

    Molecular Biology and Genetics

    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)

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  • Advisor:

    Rachel Green

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Chemistry (Chemical Biology subsection), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
     
    M.A., Chemistry, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
     
    B.S., Chemistry, emphasis in Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Denver (Denver, CO)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Carol A. Fierke (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Karen E Stevens (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Investigation of the bacterial ribonuclease P kinetic mechanism
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  • Honors:

    2009 Rackham travel grant for Enzyme Mechanisms conference

    2008 Award for poster excellence at the Vaughn Symposium at the University of Michigan (PECRUM)

    2007 Rackham travel grant for the National RNA Society Meeting

    2006 Dharmacon award for talk excellence at the Michigan RNA Society Meeting

    2006 Rackham travel grant for the National RNA Society Meeting

    2003-2006 NIH Cellular Biotechnology Training Grant

    2003 Robert W. Parry Scholarship for Summer Research at the University of Michigan

    2003 Local American Chemical Society travel award for undergraduates to attend the National ACS Meeting

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Kristin Smith Koutmou's Publications (6)



Kristin Smith Koutmou's Posters and Presentations (8)

  • Inner-sphere metal ion binding in helix P4 stabilizes the ribonuclease P active conformation (presentation)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou, Anette Casiano-Negroni, Melissa Getz, S Paczini, Andrew J Andrews, James E Penner-Hahn, Hashim M Al-Hashimi, Carol A Fierke

    MI RNA Society; 03/2010
  • B. subtilis RNase P RNR motif enhances interactions with both P RNA and pre-tRNA (poster)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou, Jeremy Day Storms, Carol A Fierke

    21st Annual Enzyme Mechanisms Conference; 01/2009
  • B. subtilis RNase P RNR motif enhances interactions with both P RNA and pre-tRNA (poster)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou, Jeremy Day Storms, Carol A Fierke

    Gordon Research Conference in Nucleic Acids ; 05/2008
  • B. subtilis RNase P protein RNR motif enhances interactions with both P RNA and pre-tRNA (presentation)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou, Jeremy Day Storms, Carol A Fierke

    National RNA Society Meeting ; 05/2007
  • Industry and academia research forum (presentation)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou

    Industry and academia research forum, for NIH Cellular Biotechnology Training Program; 04/2007
  • RNR Motif of RNase P protein enhances interactions with both P RNA and pre-tRNA in B. subtilis RNase (presentation)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou, Jeremy Day Storms, Carol A Fierke

    MI RNA Society; 03/2007
  • Sequence specific protein:pre-tRNA Contacts in B. subtilis RNase P (presentation)

    Kristin Smith Koutmou, Nathan H Zahler, Carol A Fierke

    MI RNA Society; 03/2006
  • Preparation of thiophenylalanine in a tripeptide (poster)

    J Kristin Smith, Cynthia L Hickel, Susan M Scheble

    National Meeting of the American Chemical Society ; 04/2003

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