Olke C. Uhlenbeck

O. C. Uhlenbeck
Residence	USA
Citizenship	American
Fields	Biochemistry Biophysics
Institutions	University of Illinois University of Colorado Northwestern University
Alma mater	University of Michigan Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Paul Doty
Known for	RNA synthesis from synthetic templates, RNA-protein interactions, RNA Biochemistry
Notes
His father was the famous Physicist George Eugene Uhlenbeck.

Olke C. Uhlenbeck is a biochemist presently at Northwestern University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles. His research group has led to many breakthroughs in RNA biochemistry, most notably the enzymatic synthesis of RNAs from synthetic DNA templates using T7 RNA polymerase. Olke was a founding member of the RNA society.

Early Contributions

As a graduate student in Paul Doty's lab, Olke showed that the anticodon of tRNA was accessible to hybridization to oligonucleotides. Later, as a Miller Research Fellow in Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.'s lab he helped define an original model for RNA secondary structure prediction.

Contributions from the Uhlenbeck Lab

Olke is a longstanding contributor to RNA biochemistry. His group has shown many important findings as well as developed important tools for RNA biochemists. Notable contributions include:

See also

List of RNA biologists