Neuman, Keir Cajal, 1969-
Oral history interview with Keir Neuman, 2020 March 12.
In this interview, Keir Neuman describes his childhood in Newfoundland, a formative year he spent in Paris for high school, and the circumstances that led him to set off on his own in California, which led ultimately to his enrollment at the University of California-Berkeley, his research at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and his decision to focus on biophysics while pursuing a Ph.D. at Princeton, where he began his long-term collaboration with Steve Block. Neuman discusses his work at Stanford on high precision measurements and the discovery of pauses in RNA polymerase and his dissertation on optical trapping of transcription. He describes his ongoing study of RNA and DNA with the Human Frontier program in France and his decision to come to the NIH where he continues to study DNA topology. The interview concludes with Neumans explanation of why he is optimistic about the future of his field and why NIH is well-positioned to be a leader in future advances.
Dr. Keir Neuman is a senior investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 2002. He completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University, and was a Human Frontiers Fellow with David Bensimon and Vincent Croquette at the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique at the cole Normale Supřieure in Paris, France from 2004 to 2007.
Block, Steven M.
Human Frontier Science Program (Strasbourg, France)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Biophysics
DNA. -- Research.
RNA
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA