Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, L220
Oregon Health Sciences University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR 97201
Phone: (503) 494-8098
FAX: (503) 494-6862
email: mcdermoj@ohsu.edu
jason@jasonya.com
web: www.jasonya.com/jason/
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June 1993
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Doctorate of Philosophy
'Structural analysis of retroviral capsid proteins', advisor Dr. Eric Barklis
Reed College, Portland Oregon
Department of Biology
Bachelor of Arts
Senior Thesis: 'The role of the matrix protein (p17) of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in viral assembly and infection.'
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Dr. Eric Barklis, OHSU
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McDermott, J., Karanjia, S., Love, Z., and E. Barklis. 2000. Crosslink analysis of N-terminal, C- terminal, and N/B determining regions of Moloney murine leukemia virus capsid protein. Virology 269: 190-200
Zuber, G., McDermott, J., Karanjia, S., Zhao, W., Schmid, M.F., and E. Barklis. 2000. Assembly of retrovirus capsid-nucleocapsid proteins in the presence of membranes or RNA. Journal of Virology 74(6): 7431-41
Barklis, E., McDermott, J., Wilkens, S., Fuller, S. and Thompson, D. 1998. Organization of HIV- 1 capsid proteins on a lipid monolayer. Journal of Biological Chemistry 273(13):7177-7180
Barklis, E.*, McDermott, J.*, Wilkens, S.*, Schabtach, E., Capaldi, R.A., Schmid, M.F., Fuller, S., Karanjia, S., Love, Z., Jones, R., Rui, Y., and D. Thompson,*. 1997. Structural analysis of membrane-bound retrovirus capsid proteins. European Molecular Biology Organization Journal 16:1199-1213. *Authors contributed equally to this work.
McDermott, J., Farrell, L., Ross, R. and E. Barklis. 1996. Structural analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag protein interactions, using cysteine-specific reagents. Journal of Virology 70(8):5106-5114
Wang, C., Zhang, Y., McDermott, J., and E. Barklis. 1993. Conditional infectivity of a human immunodeficiency virus matrix domain deletion mutant. Journal of Virology 67(12):7067-7076
Please Note: I am making the PDF files of these papers available to serve as single-copy reprints only. Please consult the web page of the journal for additional usage guidelines.
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Types of Programming: UNIX and Macintosh, database management, GUI, scientific graphing and 3D depiction, EM image processing, general and mathematical data processing, CGI (PERL and Python), web design and user interface (javascript and HTML), fractals and alife, some AI experience.
Administration: Macintosh administration, 10+ years; UNIX SGI systems administration, 6 years; web site administration, 4 years; limited LINUX administration.
EM/Data Processing Programs: ICE, Spider, Suprim, Phoelix, Eman, CCP4, Midas, Xtalview, NIH Image, Rasmol. origtilt, TiltOrg, DOCK.
Other Programs: Photoshop, Premiere, Canvas, Word, Excel, Cricket Graph, many more.
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