Dr. Steven M. Berry

Assistant Professor

Bioinorganic Chemistry

Office: SSB 152C

Phone: (218)726–7087

Fax: (218) 726–7394

E-mail: smberry@d.umn.edu

Personal Webpage: http://www.d.umn.edu/~smberry

• Ph.D. 2003 –University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005) – The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Research Interests

• Bioinorganic chemistry of copper proteins
• Design and engineering of unique metalloproteins
• Electronic and magnetic properties of lanthanide and lanthanide cluster complexes.

Representative Publications

1. Hee Jung Hwang, Steven M. Berry, Mark J. Nilges and Yi Lu, “Axial Methionine in CuA Center is Much Less Influential on Reduction Potentials than in Blue Copper Center,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 7274-7275 (2005).
2. Yi Lu and Steven M. Berry, "Protein Structure Design and Engineering," Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Groups (2005).
3. Steven M. Berry, Raymond J. Butcher and Deborah C. Bebout, “Solid-State and Solution-State Coordination Chemistry of the Zinc Triad with the Mixed N,S Donor Ligand Bis(2-methylpyridyl) Sulfide,” Inorg. Chem. 44, 27-39 (2005).
4. Martina Ralle, Steven M. Berry, Mark J. Nilges, Matt D. Gieselman, Wilfred A. van der Donk, Yi Lu and Ninian J. Blackburn, “The Selenocysteine-Substituted Blue Copper Center: Spectroscopic Investigations of Cys112SeCys Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurin,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 7244-7256 (2004).
5. Steven M. Berry, Martina Ralle, Donald W. Low, Ninian J. Blackburn and Yi Lu, “Probing the Role of Axial Methionine in the Blue Copper Center of Azurin with Unnatural Amino Acids,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 8760-8768 (2003).
6. Steven M. Berry, Matt D. Gieselman, Mark J. Nilges, Wilfred A. van der Donk and Yi Lu, “An Engineered Azurin Variant Containing a Selenocysteine Copper Ligand,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 2084-2085 (2002).
7. Dmitriy Lukoyanov, Steven M. Berry, Yi Lu, William E. Antholine and Charles P. Scholes, “Role of the Coordinating Histidine in Altering the Mixed Valency of CuA: An Electron Nuclear Double Resonance-Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Investigation,” Biophys. J. 82, 2758-2766 (2002).
8. Yi Lu, Steven M. Berry and Thomas D. Pfister, "Engineering Novel Metalloproteins: Design of Metal-Binding Sites into Native Protein Scaffolds" Chem. Rev. 101, 3047-3080 (2001).
9. L.C. Thompson and S. Berry, “Structure and emission spectrum of the o-phenanthroline adduct of tris(6-methyl-2,4-heptanedionato)europium(III),” J. Alloys Compd. 323-324, 177-180 (2001).

Education

• University of Minnesota Duluth, B.S. Chemistry and Biochemistry Molecular Biology, 1997.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, NIH Molecular and Biophysics Training Grant Fellow, 1998-2001.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, 2003.

Jobs and Academic Positions

• The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teaching and Research Fellow, 2003-2005.
• University of Minnesota Duluth, Assistant Professor, 2005-present.