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Susan Bernstein
Lab Manager and General Factotum         

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Integrative Biology
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Office: 4095 Valley Life Sciences Building
Email: slbernstein [at] berkeley [.] edu

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Appointments and Education

BA, Biochemistry and Cell Biology                                                                                                      
Minor, Art History
University of California, San Diego  

Research Interests

Insects and their plants
Autoimmune disorders
Self-assembling proteins

Selected Publications

Lassila JK, Bernstein SL, Kinney JN, Axen SD, Kerfeld CA. Assembly of Robust Bacterial Microcompartment Shells Using Building Blocks from an Organelle of Unknown Function. J Mol Biol. 2014 May 29; 426(11):2217-2228 doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2014.02.025
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 Cai F, Bernstein SL, Wilson SC, Kerfeld CA. Production and Characterization of
Synthetic Carboxysome Shells with Incorporated Luminal Proteins. Plant Physiology January 20, 2016 pp.01822.2015. http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1104/​pp.​15.​01822 
 
Cai F, Dou Z, Bernstein SL, Leverenz R, Williams EB, Heinhorst S, Shively J, Cannon GC, Kerfeld CA. Advances in Understanding Carboxysome Assembly in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Implicate CsoS2 as a Critical Component. Life 2015, 5(2), 1141-117. doi:10.3390/life5021141 

Cai F, Sutter M, Bernstein SL, Kinney JN, Kerfeld CA.  Engineering Bacterial Microcompartment Shells: Chimeric Shell Proteins and Chimeric Carboxysome Shells.  ACS Synth Biol. 2014 Aug 12. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb500226j
 
Cameron JC, Wilson SC, Bernstein SL, Kerfeld CA. Biogenesis of a Bacterial Organelle: The Carboxysome Assembly Pathway. Cell. 2013 Nov 21;155:1131-1140.
 
Forest KT, Bernstein SL, Getzoff ED, So M, Tribbick G, Geysen HM, Deal CD, Tainer JA. Assembly and antigenicity of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus mapped with antibodies. Infect Immun. 1996 Feb;64(2):644-52.
 
McTigue MA, Bernstein SL, Williams DR, Tainer JA. Purification and crystallization of a schistosomal glutathione S-transferase. Proteins. 1995 May;22(1):55-7.
 
Parge HE, Bernstein SL, Deal CD, McRee DE, Christensen D, Capozza MA, Kays BW, Fieser TM, Draper D, So M, Getzoff ED, Tainer JA. Biochemical purification and crystallization of the fiber-forming protein pilin from Neisseria gonorrhoeae. JBC. 1990 Feb 4;265(4)2278-2285.

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