Professor Peter McCormick PhD

About

I am originally from Atlanta, GA, and did my undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where I majored in Chemistry and French. My career began in the lab of Arthur E. Johnson at Texas A&M University in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. There, using a novel in vitro approach incorporating a labeled lysyl-tRNA into a growing nascent polypeptide, we discovered a seminal understanding that the pore through which all membrane proteins pass plays an active role in membrane protein biogenesis. This work was followed by a study that was the first demonstration that transmembrane regions begin to form within the tunnel of the ribosome. For my post-doctoral work, I moved to Washington, DC, to work at the National Institutes of Health (USA). We answered a long-standin