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Department Chair: Ilan Benjamin	Department Manager: Patti Schell
Graduate Adviser: Karen Meece	Administrative Assistant: Katie Cramton
Undergraduate Adviser: Justyn Vanderplas	Undergraduate Adviser: Rexton Lynn
Instructional Lab Manager: Lori Etow
Department Office: (831) 459-4002	Adminstrative Office: PSB, Room 230

Title
- Professor
- Director and Adviser BMB Program
- Member, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
Phone
831-459-5367 (office), 831-459-5292 (Lab)
Email
- wgscott@ucsc.edu
Website
Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 458
- Physical Sciences Bldg 458 (Office)
- Physical Sciences Bldg 453 (Lab)
Office Hours By appointment
Mail Stop Chemistry
Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry

Summary of Expertise

Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes, origin of life.

Research Interests

I am trying to understand RNA structure, catalysis and the origin of life.

Biography, Education and Training

B.S., Chemistry, B.S., Biology, Bates College
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoc, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

Selected Publications

Selected Presentations

http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/hh/hammerhead_ribozyme_tour.html A Structural Tour of the Hammerhead Ribozyme
http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/L1/Ligase_slideshow.html The L1 Ligase Ribozyme: "A glimpse of biology's first enzyme"
http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/hh/slideshow_mrna_hh.html A Ribozyme Embedded in a Mammalian mRNA
http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/L1/phasing_no_heavy_atoms.html Phasing Novel RNA Structures Without Heavy Atom Derivatives

Teaching Interests

Biophysical Chemistry and Structural Molecular Biology