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1996 – 1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology; M.I.T, Cambridge, Massachusetts and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.
Research with Paul Schimmel on evolution and molecular recognition of alanyl-tRNA synthetases.
1996: Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, New York
Research with David Horne on substrate recognition by tRNA-pseudouridine synthase.
1989: B.A. Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Research with Roy Jacobsen on the synthesis of corranulene.
Lovato, M. A.; Chihade, J.W.; Schimmel, P. "Translocation within acceptor helix of a major tRNA identity determinant", EMBO Journal, 2001, 20, 4846-4853.
Chihade, J.W.; Brown, J.R.; Schimmel, P.; Ribas de Pouplana, L. "Origin of mitochondria in relation to evolutionary history of eukaryotic alanyl-tRNA synthetase" , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 2000, 97, 12153-12157.
Chihade, J.W. and Schimmel, P. "Assembly of a catalytic unit for RNA microhelix aminoacylation using nonspecific RNA binding domains" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 1999, 96, 12316-12321.
Chihade, J.W., Hayashibara, K., Shiba, K., and Schimmel, P. "Strong selective pressure to use G:U to mark an RNA acceptor stem for alanine" Biochemistry 1998, 37, 9193-9202.
Chihade, J.W. & Horne, D. A. "Single nucleotide modulation of uridine to pseudouridine rearrangement in transfer RNA catalyzed by pseudouridine synthase I" J. Mol. Recognit. 1996, 5-6, 524-527.
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