Brian Dyer

• Professor, Emory Univeristy Since 2009
• Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2003-present
• Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1987-2009
• Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985-1987
• Ph.D., Duke University, 1985
• B.S., Wake Forest University, 1981

Honors

• LANL Women's Career Development Mentoring Award, 2008
• Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal, 2005-2008
• Member, NIH BBCA study section, 2001-2005
• Los Alamos Fellows Prize for work on fast events in protein folding, 1997
• R&D100 Award, Ultrafast Infrared Spectrometer, 1995
• Phi Lambda Upsilon
• Sigma XI
• Magna Cum Laude, Wake Forest University

Research Support

Current

• R01 GM 053640, Dyer (PI), 8/2008-4/2013
• NIH/NIGMS
• Fast Events in Protein Folding
• Studies of the fundamental processes in protein folding using fast T-jump and pH-jump methods coupled with time resolved spectroscopy (IR and fluorescence).
• P01 GM 068036, Callender (PI), 6/2009 -5/2014
• NIH/NIGMS
• Protein Dynamics in Enzymatic Catalysis
• (Subprojects 3&6: Dyer,PI)
• Studies of the role of protein dynamics in enzymatic catalysis, with a focus on new experimental tools including time-resolved spectroscopy and the movement of protons through proteins.

Completed

• DR 20070096, Dyer (PI), 10/2006-9/2009
• DOE/LDRD
• Biomimetic Hydrogen production by transition metal photocatalysts
• Explore biomimetic approaches to solar water splitting and hydrogen production.