Current Position:
Since Jan 1999 I work as assistant professor at the Chemistry Department,
Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. My research focuses on two
areas: protein folding (in particular cofactor-binding proteins) and peptide
nucleic acid, PNA (a DNA mimic that shows promising features as a genetic
drug). For more information on my current research, and group members,
see http://www.tulane.edu/~pernilla.
“Career” History:
I studied for a combined Bachelor and Master Degree in Chemical Engineering
(Gothenburg, Sweden) 1988-1992. 1991-1992, I was an exchange student at
Imperial College in London learning biochemistry and preparing a heat-shock
protein. I then continued, after three months of thinking in Asia, with
graduate studies in Physical Chemistry (Chalmers University, Sweden; advisor:
Bengt Norden). Now I used biophysical techniques to study nucleic-acid
interactions (PNA and RecA molecules most of the time). 1996 I obtained
my PhD. 1997 I began a 2-year post-doc at California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena, California, working with Professor Harry Gray on protein-folding
experiments using laser-spectroscopy.