John “Jack” Sokatch

John R. Sokatch

A Career of Commitment to Science and OUHSC

• 1950 B.S. Univ. of Michigan

• 1956 Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois

• 1956-58 Postdoctoral Fellow Washington State University

• 1958 Assistant Professor of Microbiology

• 1963 Fulbright Research Scholarship

• 1967 Professor of Microbiology

• 1970-77 Associate Dean, Graduate College.

• 1971-77 Associate Director, Research Administration

• 1975-76 Interim Dean, College of Pharmacy

• 1979 Fogarty Senior Research Fellowship

• 1984-92 Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• 1988 George Lynn Cross Research Professor

• 1999 Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• Continuous funding from NIH and NSF

Pseudomonas putida

Structural composite of the components of a 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase multienzyme complex and the dynamics of its functional cycle in Pseudomonas putida.

Crystal structure of 2-oxoisovalerate and dehydrogenase and the architecture of 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes. Aevarsson A. Seger K. Turley S. Sokatch JR. Hol WG. Nature Structural Biology 6 :785-92, 1999