Department of Chemistry
College of Letters & Science

Chad Rienstra

Position title: Evelyn M. Mercer Professor of Biochemistry Co-Director, National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison

Email: crienstra@wisc.edu

Address:
171A HF DeLuca Biochemistry Laboratories
433 Babcock Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1544

Research Website
Rienstra Lab

EDUCATION

  • B.S., Macalester College
  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Postdoctoral, Columbia University

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RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

The Rienstra group has pioneered solid-state NMR methods and technologies that matured the discipline to solve high-resolution structures of small proteins. We have also contributed innovative approaches to enable larger structures of assemblies, fibrils and membrane proteins to be addressed and have extended these technologies to increasingly significant biomedical problems. These results are having a major impact on understanding Parkinson’s disease, fungicidal drug action and protein-lipid interactions in blood coagulation.
Learn more about our research here.