David Sanders (biologist)

David Sanders
Born
Teaneck, New Jersey
Notable work
West Lafayette City Council
In office
2016–2022
Alma materYale College, University of California at Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular Virology
InstitutionsPurdue University
Doctoral advisorDaniel E. Koshland Jr.
Other academic advisorsRichard C. Mulligan

David Sanders is an associate professor of biological sciences at Purdue University.[1] He grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey,[2][3] and then attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York.[4] He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Yale College in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.[5] He conducted his Ph.D. research in Biochemistry with Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., who was then editor of the journal Science, at the University of California at Berkeley. Sanders demonstrated that the response regulators in the two-component regulatory systems were phosphorylated on an aspartate residue and that they were protein phosphatases with a covalent intermediate.[6][7] In 1995, he joined the Markey Center for Structural Biology at Purdue University.[8] In 2016, Sanders was elected to the West Lafayette City Council. He has opposed the plan to divert hundreds of millions of gallons of water from Tippecanoe County aquifers to the LEAP project in Boone County, and he sponsored the West Lafayette City Council resolution opposing the pipeline.[9][10][11]

  1. ^ Department Biological Sciences, Purdue University, [1], Web. August 31, 2018,
  2. ^ "What I Learn From My Weekly Walks to Synagogue". The Forward. March 15, 2017.
  3. ^ "Jewish Post 10 March 2004 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
  4. ^ "Horace Mann School: Comings & Goings". Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "David Sanders Lab, Bio" [2] Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Web. February 2, 2010
  6. ^ Sanders, D. A.; Gillece-Castro, B. L.; Stock, A. M.; Burlingame, A. L.; Koshland, D. E. (December 25, 1989). "Identification of the site of phosphorylation of the chemotaxis response regulator protein, CheY". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264 (36): 21770–21778. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(20)88250-7. PMID 2689446.
  7. ^ Sanders, DA; Gillece-Castro, BL; Burlingame, AL; Koshland, DE (1992). "Phosphorylation site of NtrC, a protein phosphatase whose covalent intermediate activates transcription". J. Bacteriol. 174 (15): 5117–22. doi:10.1128/jb.174.15.5117-5122.1992. PMC 206329. PMID 1321122.
  8. ^ David Sandrs: Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University, [3], Web. November 4, 2022,
  9. ^ "Third Greater Lafayette municipality opposes Wabash River to Boone County water pipeline". October 12, 2023.
  10. ^ "West Lafayette council declares opposition to water pipeline".
  11. ^ "Who owns the water? Indiana resource battle coming to a boil". October 4, 2023.