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Jonathan Sheehan

brief curriculum vitae:

• 1974-84: Greenhill School, Dallas TX
• 1984-88: Harvard College: honors in Classics (Greek Poetry)
• Summer 1987: Aegean Institute in Galatas: honors in classical drama and modern Greek
• 1989-90: Peace Corps: building potable water systems near Azogues, Ecuador
• 1990-95: technician in Jim Forman's Lab in immunology at UTSWMC at Dallas
• 1995-96: technician in the Embryonic Stem Cell Core Lab at VUMC
• 1996-97: technician in Mark Magnuson's Lab in Molec. Physiol. and Biophys.
• 1997-2000: Manager of Cell Imaging Core Lab
• 2000-01: first year grad student in Vanderbilt University's IGP
• 2000-03: recipient of the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt graduate scholarship.
• 2000: honorable mention - NSF fellowship competition
    (received invitation to use NSF supercomputing facility).
• May 2001: joined Walter Chazin's lab in Biochemistry dept.
• 2001: awarded training grant in Molecular Biophysics program
• January 2002: presented poster at Keystone Frontiers in Structural Biology meeting:
  Structure and calcium-binding properties of caltractin.
• April 2002: appointed to education committee of Molecular Biophysics training program
• June 2002: passed preliminary (phase I) exam in biochem.: Regulation of SGT Binding and Activity by Phosphorylation
• Sept. 2002: passed qualifying (phase II) exam in biochem.: Calbindomodulin: rational design of a calcium-sensor protein
• Sept. 2006: Defended dissertation: Probing functional diversity of EF-hand calcium-binding proteins through mutant design and structural analysis
• Nov. 2006: Began postdoctoral fellowship performing outreach in Vanderbilt's Center for Structural Biology