Dr. Schuck obtained his Ph.D. from the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he worked on interactions of integral proteins of the erythrocyte membrane using analytical ultracentrifugation. He received his post-doctoral research training in physical biochemistry with Dr. Allen Minton at NIDDK, and joined the Bioengineering and Physical Science Program of NCRR as a Research Fellow in 1997. He is currently a Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator and Chief of the Dynamics of Macromoleular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Ghirlando earned his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and is a Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH. His interest include the study of the in vivo chromatin structure at the 30-nm fiber level, and more generally, the development of hydrodynamic methodology for the study of challenging biomacromolecular interactions.