{"id":2217,"date":"2014-02-06T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easinc.org\/wordpress\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:58:11","slug":"2014-eas-new-faculty-award-nmr-spectroscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/2014-eas-new-faculty-award-nmr-spectroscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 EAS New Faculty Award in NMR Spectroscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2216\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macnaughtan-photo-new-facutly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2216\" alt=\"Megan Macnaughtan Louisiana State University\" src=\"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macnaughtan-photo-new-facutly-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macnaughtan-photo-new-facutly-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macnaughtan-photo-new-facutly-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Macnaughtan<br \/>Louisiana State University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Megan A. Macnaughtan<\/strong> is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University.\u00a0 She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry at Ohio University in 1998, and her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 2003 from Purdue University. \u00a0She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia with James Prestegard before joining the faculty at Louisiana State University in 2008.\u00a0 Dr. Macnaughtan is an expert in bioanalytical nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. \u00a0As a graduate student with Dr. Daniel Raftery, she studied surface photo-catalysis using solid-state NMR and developed NMR probes for multiplex sample analysis.\u00a0 Her postdoctoral research in the Prestegard lab focused on biological NMR, including method development and structural biology of proteins and carbohydrate ligands.\u00a0 Her work on post-expression isotopic labeling of proteins for characterizing glycoproteins was supported by an NIH Pathway to Independence grant. \u00a0As an assistant professor, Dr. Macnaughtan\u2019s research group investigates the structural conformations of proteins, carbohydrates, and enzyme-bound substrate using NMR.\u00a0 Her research program is focused on three areas: developing an <i>E. coli<\/i> strain to produce glycoproteins suitable for study by NMR, investigating the mechanism of Notch activation by NMR, and determining the structure-activity relationship of a bi-functional <i>Chlamydia trachomatis<\/i> enzyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan A. Macnaughtan is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University.\u00a0 She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}