Michael F. Summers

Michael F. Summers
Alma materSt. Petersburg Junior College
University of West Florida
Emory University
Known forNMR, Role of the Gag protein in RNA recognition, Mentoring Underrepresented Students
AwardsHoward Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Member of National Academy of Sciences
Ruth Kirstein Award
Carl Branden award
Emily M. Gray Award
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education
Mentor Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Microbiology Hinton Award for Mentoring

Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
Biochemistry
InstitutionsHoward Hughes Medical Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
ThesisStudies of B12 Analogs and Models Containing Bis (dimethylglyoximato) and Bis (salicylidine)-o-phenylenediamine as Equatorial Ligands (1984)
Doctoral advisorLuigi Marzilli
Other academic advisorsAd Bax
Doctoral studentsVictoria D'Souza

Michael F. Summers is the Robert E. Meyerhoff Chair for Excellence in Research and Mentoring and a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[1][2] He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology.[3] Since 1994, he has been a HHMI Investigator as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2016.[4][1]

Education and early life

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Michael F. Summers earned his A.A. degree from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1978, and then a B.S. in chemistry from the University of West Florida in 1980. He then earned his Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from Emory University in 1984.[4]

Career and research

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From 1984 to 1987, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH under Dr. Adrian Bax.[2][4][5] Since 1987, he has been a UMBC Faculty member.

His career has focused on using structural approaches to studying protein, RNA, and macromolecular interactions with HIV-1 genome packaging and virus assembly.[6][4] He is particularly well known for using NMR. He has also been a major proponent for retaining minority students in the sciences through undergraduate involvement in research as well as involvement with the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.[6][7][8] He is also involved with adapting the Meyerhoff Scholars program at other schools with HHMI such as Penn State and UNC.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Michael F. Summers, PhD | Investigator | 1994-Present". www.hhmi.org. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Michael Summers". chemistry.umbc.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Editorial board - Journal of Molecular Biology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d "Michael F. Summers – NAS". www.nasonline.org/. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Lab Members - Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Section - NIDDK". National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Howard Hughes Medical Institute @ UMBC". www.hhmi.umbc.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  7. ^ "Q&A: Dr. Michael Summers On The Meyerhoff Scholars Program - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County". 7 June 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  8. ^ "History". meyerhoff.umbc.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  9. ^ "A vaunted program for boosting the diversity of U.S. academic scientists is starting to spread". www.science.org. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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