Tamir Gonen | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 48–49) |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland (BS, PhD) |
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| Fields | Membrane protein Structural biology cryoEM MicroED |
| Institutions | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Los Angeles Janelia Research Campus University of Washington Harvard Medical School |
| Thesis | Novel protein-protein interactions in the lens: a solution to the Mp20 enigma |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward N. Baker Joerg Kistler |
| Other academic advisors | Thomas Walz |
| Website | https://cryoem.ucla.edu/ |
Tamir Gonen (born 1975) is an American structural biochemist and membrane biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology of membrane proteins, membrane biochemistry and electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) particularly in electron crystallography of 2D crystals and for the development of 3D electron crystallography from microscopic crystals known as MicroED. Gonen is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, the founding director of the MicroED Imaging Center at UCLA and a Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.