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Joe Lutkenhaus

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Joe Lutkenhaus
Born (1947-04-24) April 24, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIowa State University
University of California, Los Angeles
Known forDiscovering the Intracellular Structure of Bacterial Cells
AwardsLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center

Joe Lutkenhaus is a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He received a B.S. in organic chemistry from Iowa state University and then a PhD in biochemistry for the University of California, Los Angeles. Following his PhD, Lutkenhaus pursued his postdoctoral studies with William Donachie at the University of Edinburgh and then continued at the University of Connecticut Health Science center. In 2002, Lutkenhaus became a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.[1]

Lutkenhaus discovered, among other things, that the FtsZ protein forms a ring around the division plane in bacteria and is thus a key factor in bacterial cell division.[2]

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  1. ^ "Horwitz Prize Awarded for Discovering the Structure of Bacteria(2012)". News Wise. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  2. ^ Bi, E. F.; Lutkenhaus, J. (1991-11-14). "FtsZ ring structure associated with division in Escherichia coli". Nature. 354 (6349): 161–164. doi:10.1038/354161a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 1944597. S2CID 4329947.