Laura L. Kiessling is an American biochemist, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the director of the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics, and the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program.

She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 with a B.S., and from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 with a PhD. She edits ACS Chemical Biology.

Awards

• 2008 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program
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• Wilbur Cross Medalist

Works

• E. C. Dykhuizen, J. F. May, A. Tongpenyai, and L. L. Kiessling. "Inhibitors of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase Thwart Mycobacterial Growth". 2008, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 6706-6707.
• E. M. Kolonko and L. L. Kiessling. "A polymeric domain that promotes cellular internalization". 2008, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 5626-5627.
• E. S. Underbakke, Y. Zhu, and L. L. Kiessling. "Isotope-Coded Affinity Tags with Tunable Reactivites for Protein Footprinting". 2008, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 9677-9680.
• C. B. Carlson, P. Mowery, R. M. Owen, E. C. Dykhuizen and L. L. Kiessling. "Selective Tumor Cell Targeting Using Low Affinity Multivalent Interactions". 2007, ACS Chem. Biol. 2, 119-127.
• E. B. Puffer, J. K. Pontrello, J. J. Hollenbeck, J. A. Kink, and L. L. Kiessling. "Activating B Cell Signaling with Defined Multivalent Ligands". 2007, ACS Chem. Biol. 2, 252-262.
• L. L. Kiessling, J. E. Gestwicki and L. E. Strong (2006). "Synthetic Ligands as Probes of Signal Transduction." 2006, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 2348-2368.
• J. K. Pontrello, M. J. Allen, E. S. Underbakke, and L. L. Kiessling. "Solid-Phase Synthesis of Polymers Using the Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization". 2005, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 14536-14537.
• Y. He, R. J. Hinklin, J. Chang and L. L. Kiessling. "Stereoselective N-Glycosylation by Staudinger Ligation." 2004, Org. Lett. 6, 4479-4482.
• M. L. Soltero-Higgin, E. E. Carlson, T. D. Gruber and L. L. Kiessling. "A Unique Catalytic Mechanism for UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase" 2004, Nature Mol. Struct. Biol. 11, 539-543.
• T. Young and L. L. Kiessling. "A Strategy for the Synthesis of Sulfated Peptides". 2002, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 41, 3449-3451.
• J. E. Gestwicki, C. W. Cairo, L. E. Strong, K. A. Oetjen and L. L. Kiessling. "Influencing Receptor - Ligand Binding Mechanisms with Multivalent Ligand Architecture". 2002, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 14922-14933.
• C. R. Bertozzi and L. L. Kiessling. "Chemical Glycobiology", 2001, Science 291, 2357-64.299
• R. J. Hinklin and L. L. Kiessling. "Glycosyl Sulfonylcarbamates: New Glycosyl Donors with Tunable Reactivity". 2001, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 3379-3380.
• B. L. Nilsson, L. L. Kiessling and R. T. Raines (2000). "Staudinger Ligation: A Peptide from a Thioester and Azide", Org. Lett. 2, 1939-1941.
• N. Maki, J. E. Gestwicki, L. L. Kiessling and J. Adler (2000). "Motility and Chemotaxis of Filamentous Cells of Escherichia coli", J. Bacteriol. 182, 4337-4342.
• S. D. Burke, Q. Zhao, M. C. Schuster and L. L. Kiessling (2000). "Synergistic Formation of Soluble Lectin Clusters by a Templated Multivalent Saccharide Ligand", J. Am. Chem. Soc 122, 4518-4519.

External links

• "Laura L. Kiessling", Scientific Commons