The 2004 SWMS Organizing Committee

Dr. Marvin Hackert, Professor William Shive Centennial Professorship in Biochemistry Director, Biochemical Institute, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Dr. Kurt Krause, Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of Houston, Houston, TX

Dr. Krause directs a crystallography group working on the structural biology of infectious diseases. He is the Associate Director of the Institute or Molecular Design. His main areas of interest include tuberculosis, drug resistant bacteria, flavivirus encephalitis, and structure aided drug design. Dr. Krause is also a physician who is a clinical specialist in infectious diseases. He holds a joint appointment at Baylor College of Medicine where he serves as an Attending Physician at Ben Taub, St. Lukes, and The Methodist Hospital.

Dr. Florante A. Quiocho, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine,  Houston, TX

Dr. Quiocho is also Charles C. Bell Professor of Structural Biology at Baylor College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry at Yale University under the direction of Frederic Richards and was a postdoctoral research fellow in chemistry with William Lipscomb at Harvard University. He was a member of the Rice University faculty before moving to Baylor. Dr. Quiocho has been a visiting research scientist and a research fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization at Oxford University and a Guggenheim fellow