Irina Russu |
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| 1986-1990 |
Irina Russu
received her B.S. in Physics and her Licentiate in
Physics and Biophysics at the University of Bucharest in
Romania. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of
Pittsburgh. She did postdoctoral research there and was
appointed a Research Assistant Professor at
Carnegie-Mellon University. In 1986, Russu came to Wesleyan
University to the Department of Molecular Biology and
Biochemistry. Her teaching and research experience was
broadened further by a year as Visiting Professor of
Chemistry at Yale in the early '90's. In 2000,
she moved from the MB&B Department to the Chemistry
Department. Russu's research is focused on the relationship between structure and function in biological macromolecules using NMR spectroscopy and other biophysical techniques. One current project centers on the structure and dynamics of nucleic acids. Another aims at understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for the cooperative binding of oxygen to human hemoglobin and for the allosteric effects of other components of the red blood cells upon hemoglobin function. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. She was chair of the MB&B Department for two years and serves on various university committees. |
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