Alice Ting
Appointments
Professor, Genetics
Professor, Biology
Professor (By courtesy), Chemistry
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Faculty Fellow, Stanford ChEM-H
Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Other Appointments
Professor of Genetics, Biology, and by courtesy, Chemistry, Stanford University (2016 - Present)
Professor of Chemistry, MIT (2014 - 2016)
Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT (2007 - 2014)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, MIT (2002 - 2007)
Honors & Awards
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Biohub Investigator, CZI (2017)
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award, NIH (2013)
HHMI Collaborative Innovation Award, HHMI (2012)
Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, Vilcek Foundation (2012)
Ellen Swallow Richards Chair, MIT (2011)
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society (2010)
Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2010)
E. Bright Wilson Prize Lecture, Harvard University (2008)
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, NIH (2008)
Buck-Whitney Award, American Chemical Society (2007)
Professional Education
Post-doc, University of California, San Diego, Biochemistry (advisor Roger Tsien) (2002)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry (advisor Peter Schultz) (2000)
A.B., Harvard University, Chemistry (advisor E. J. Corey) (1996)
High school, Texas Academy of Math and Science (1992)
Featured Publications
Wang, W., Wildes, C. P., Pattarabanjird, T., Sanchez, M. I., Glober, G. F., Matthews, G. A., … Ting, A. Y. (2017). A light- and calcium-gated transcription factor for imaging and manipulating activated neurons. Nature Biotechnology.
Martell, J. D., Yamagata, M., Deerinck, T. J., Phan, S., Kwa, C. G., Ellisman, M. H., … Ting, A. Y. (2016). A split horseradish peroxidase for the detection of intercellular protein-protein interactions and sensitive visualization of synapses. Nature Biotechnology, 34(7), 774–80.
Liu, D. S., Nivon, L. G., Richter, F., Goldman, P. J., Deerinck, T. J., Yao, J. Z., … Ting, A. Y. (2014). Computational design of a red fluorophore ligase for site-specific protein labeling in living cells. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 111(43), E4551–E4559.
Lam, S. S., Martell, J. D., Kamer, K. J., Deerinck, T. J., Ellisman, M. H., Mootha, V. K., & Ting, A. Y. (2015). Directed evolution of APEX2 for electron microscopy and proximity labeling. NATURE METHODS, 12(1), 51–54.
Martell, J. D., Deerinck, T. J., Sancak, Y., Poulos, T. L., Mootha, V. K., Sosinsky, G. E., … Ting, A. Y. (2012). Engineered ascorbate peroxidase as a genetically encoded reporter for electron microscopy. NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, 30(11), 1143-?
Loh, K. H., Stawski, P. S., Draycott, A. S., Udeshi, N. D., Lehrman, E. K., Wilton, D. K., … Ting, A. Y. (2016). Proteomic Analysis of Unbounded Cellular Compartments: Synaptic Clefts. Cell, 166(5), 1295–1307 e21.
Hung, V., Lam, S. S., Udeshi, N. D., Svinkina, T., Guzman, G., Mootha, V. K., … Ting, A. Y. (2017). Proteomic mapping of cytosol-facing outer mitochondrial and ER membranes in living human cells by proximity biotinylation. ELIFE, 6.
Rhee, H.-W., Zou, P., Udeshi, N. D., Martell, J. D., Mootha, V. K., Carr, S. A., & Ting, A. Y. (2013). Proteomic Mapping of Mitochondria in Living Cells via Spatially Restricted Enzymatic Tagging. SCIENCE, 339(6125), 1328–1331.
