D. Travis Gallagher

Travis Gallagher received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Texas for his crystallographic studies of histidine decarboxylase. He then accepted an NRC postdoctoral fellowship working with Gary Gilliland (then at CARB), which led to his present position at NIST/IBBR. He has crystallized and determined the structures of some dozens of proteins. His interest in the science of protein crystallization fits with his current role as co-manager of the Biomolecular Crystallization Database (BMCD). Proteins of current interest include adenylate cyclases, cAMP receptor protein, subtilisin, and proteins from archaea.

Representative Publications

Gallagher, DT, Smith, N, Kim, SK, Robinson, H and Reddy, PT., Profound asymmetry in the structure of the cAMP receptor protein (CRP) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, J. Mol. Biol., Epub date 2/4/09.