Carlos Bustamante

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
Department of Physics
Bio/CV: 

Carlos Bustamante received his B.S. in 1973 from Universidad Peruana Cayatano Heredia; M.S. in 1975 from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley; Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1996; Physics Department faculty member since 1998. Named an investigator for Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2000.

Research interests: 

Biophysics, protein-DNA interactions, methods of single-molecule manipulation.