Altaira D. Dearborn, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist

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Education:

Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

M.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

Languages Spoken: French, Ivatan

Biography

Dr. Dearborn joined the Structural Virology Section in 2019, having completed post-doctoral training in virology and structure biology with Drs. Paul Wingfield and Alasdair Steven in the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. She has used cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, and NMR to study protein assembly and size-determination.