Karin Musier-Forsyth
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Karin Musier-Forsyth, an American biochemist, is an Ohio Eminent Scholar on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio State University.[1] Musier-Forsyth's research involves biochemical, biophysical and cell-based approaches to understand the interactions of proteins and RNAs involved in protein synthesis and viral replication, especially in HIV.
Musier-Forsyth was born in 1962 in Dover, NJ to Horst and Maria Musier, who immigrated to the United States from Germany in the 1950s.[2] Her family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1967 and she grew up on the Isle of Capri in Treasure Island, Florida. Her extracurricular activities throughout elementary school, high school, and college included piano, dance, and gymnastics. She attended Eckerd College in St. Petersburg Florida and enjoyed a liberal arts education, study abroad opportunities in London, England and Vienna, Austria, and research experiences at Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as at Eckerd. She graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. In 1984, Musier-Forsyth enrolled in graduate school at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in the Department of Chemistry. Her Ph.D. mentor was Gordon G. Hammes under whom she studied enzyme purification, chemical crosslinking, and biophysical methods such as FRET.[3] She received her Ph.D. in 1989. Musier-Forsyth met her husband, Craig Forsyth,[4] in graduate school and they were married in Ithaca, NY in 1988. They have one son, Nicholas, born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2003.
Professional history
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1989, Musier-Forsyth began research in the laboratory of Paul Schimmel at MIT as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1992, she was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota's Chemistry Department.[5] She was subsequently promoted to an associate professor in 1998 and a full Professor in 2003.[3] In 2007, she left the University of Minnesota and took up her current position at the Ohio State University as Ohio Eminent Scholar in Biological Macromolecular Structure and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.[5]
