Elizabeth M. Boon Explained

Elizabeth M. Boon is an American biochemist who is a professor and associate dean of the graduate school at Stony Brook University. She is known for her research on the biochemical mechanisms used by bacteria to regulate biofilm formation.

Education and career

Boon was an undergraduate at Kenyon College where she majored in chemistry. She moved to the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, working with Jacqueline Barton on DNA-mediated electrochemical reactions.^[1] Following her Ph.D., Boon was a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley working with Michael Marletta.^{[2] [3]} At Stony Brook University she serves as a professor of chemistry.^[4] In 2018 she was made co-director of the Chemical Biology Training Program, an NIH-funded T32 program. In 2023 she was named associate dean of the graduate school.^[5]

Awards and honors

• 2011, Elected a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences and the Kavli Foundation^[6]
• 2008, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers^[7]
• 2008, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award^[8]

Selected publications

• Boon . Elizabeth M. . Ceres . Donato M. . Drummond . Thomas G. . Hill . Michael G. . Barton . Jacqueline K. . 2000 . Mutation detection by electrocatalysis at DNA-modified electrodes . Nature Biotechnology . en . 18 . 10 . 1096–1100 . 10.1038/80301 . 11017050 . 1546-1696.
• Boon . Elizabeth M. . Huang . Shirley H. . Marletta . Michael A. . 2005 . A molecular basis for NO selectivity in soluble guanylate cyclase . Nature Chemical Biology . en . 1 . 1 . 53–59 . 10.1038/nchembio704 . 16407994 . 1552-4469.
• Arora . Dhruv P. . Hossain . Sajjad . Xu . Yueming . Boon . Elizabeth M. . 2015-06-23 . Nitric Oxide Regulation of Bacterial Biofilms . Biochemistry . en . 54 . 24 . 3717–3728 . 10.1021/bi501476n . 25996573 . 0006-2960.
• Henares . Bernadette M. . Higgins . Kate E. . Boon . Elizabeth M. . 2012-08-17 . Discovery of a Nitric Oxide Responsive Quorum Sensing Circuit in Vibrio harveyi . ACS Chemical Biology . en . 7 . 8 . 1331–1336 . 10.1021/cb300215t . 22606970 . 1554-8929.
• Hossain . Sajjad . Boon . Elizabeth M. . 2017-06-09 . Discovery of a Novel Nitric Oxide Binding Protein and Nitric-Oxide-Responsive Signaling Pathway in Pseudomonas aeruginosa . ACS Infectious Diseases . en . 3 . 6 . 454–461 . 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00027 . 28238256 . 5468770 . 2373-8227.

Notes and References

1. Electrochemical sensors based on DNA-mediated charge transport chemistry . 10.7907/PFXM-7M76 . 2003 . Boon . Elizabeth Marshall . California Institute of Technology . phd .
2. Boon . Elizabeth M. . Marletta . Michael A. . 2006-08-01 . Sensitive and Selective Detection of Nitric Oxide Using an H−NOX Domain . Journal of the American Chemical Society . en . 128 . 31 . 10022–10023 . 10.1021/ja0632714 . 16881625 . 0002-7863.
3. Boon . Elizabeth M. . Davis . Joseph H. . Tran . Rosalie . Karow . David S. . Huang . Shirley H. . Pan . Duohai . Miazgowicz . Michael M. . Mathies . Richard A. . Marletta . Michael A. . 2006 . Nitric Oxide Binding to Prokaryotic Homologs of the Soluble Guanylate Cyclase β1 H-NOX Domain . Journal of Biological Chemistry . en . 281 . 31 . 21892–21902 . 10.1074/jbc.M600557200. free . 16728401 .
4. Web site: Elizabeth Boon Department of Chemistry . 2024-05-15 . www.stonybrook.edu . en.
5. Web site: Meet the Team The Graduate School . 2024-05-15 . www.stonybrook.edu . en.
6. Web site: Elizabeth Boon . 2024-05-15 . www.nasonline.org.
7. Web site: July 13, 2009 . President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists . 2024-05-15 . www.nsf.gov . English.
8. Web site: 2022-03-18 . 2008 Young Investigators . 2024-05-15 . Office of Naval Research . en.