Shelley Starck

Alumni Associate Specialist

shelley@walterlab.ucsf.edu

Scientific Interest

ALL THINGS TRANSLATION – biochemical, molecular, and cell biology of mammalian protein synthesis.

Current Research Interests

Translational Control During eIF2a Phosphorylation

Former Lab Affiliations

1995-1999 Dr. Sidney M. Hecht – Undergraduate Research Assitant, University of Virginia
1999-2004 Dr. Richard W. Roberts – Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology
2004-2005 Dr. Jamie H. Doudna Cate – Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2005-2012 Dr. Nilabh Shastri – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Education

1998 B.S. Chemistry – University of Virginia, USA
2004 Ph.D Chemistry – California Institute of Technology, USA

Selected Publications

Starck SR, Tsai JC, Chen K, Shodiya M, Wang L, Yahiro K, Martins-Green M, Shastri N, Walter PTranslation from the 5’ untranslated region shapes the integrated stress response. Science 351:6272, 2016
(PMID: 26823435) (PDF)