{"id":3863,"date":"2009-05-08T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/05\/08\/kevan-shokat-xx-elected-to-nas\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:47","slug":"kevan-shokat-xx-elected-to-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/05\/kevan-shokat-xx-elected-to-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevan Shokat &#8217;86 Elected to NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www8.nationalacademies.org\/onpinews\/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04282009\">72 new members<\/a><\/b> have been elected to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/site\/PageServer\"><b>National Academy of Sciences<\/b><\/a>. Among them is <a href=\"http:\/\/shokatlab.ucsf.edu\/\"><b>Kevan Shokat<\/b><\/a>, Reed &#8217;86, currently a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is the time of year when seniors are filing their finished theses, it is interesting to go back and look at Kevan&#8217;s. The Reed library catalog describes this document as &#8220;49 leaves&#8221; carrying the title, &#8220;Synthesis of a precursor of PRCPCP, a non-hydrolyzable analog of phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP)&#8221;. Ron McClard served as Kevan&#8217;s thesis advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72 new members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Among them is Kevan Shokat, Reed &#8217;86, currently a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC San Francisco. Since this is the&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/05\/kevan-shokat-xx-elected-to-nas\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Kevan Shokat &#8217;86 Elected to NAS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}