James Hurley
James ("Jim") Hurley is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Moscow (the city in Idaho, USA, not Russia), graduated in Physics from San Francisco State University, and obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco. He was a senior investigator in the intramural program of the National Institutes of Health from 1992-2013, and joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. He has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a team leader in the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Collaborative Research Network since 2020. Dr. Hurley uses structural biology, biophysics, biochemistry, and cell biology approaches to understand the structure and function of cell membranes in health and disease. He is known for his work on the structure and mechanism of the ESCRT membrane scission machinery, coated vesicle and endosome biogenesis, lipid transporters and second messenger systems, and the autophagy core complexes.
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