Curriculum Vitae

Matthew P. Jacobson

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1989-1993       Stanford University, Stanford, CA                B.S., Honors               Chemistry

1994-1999       MIT, Cambridge, MA                                  Ph.D.                          Physical Chemistry

1999-2000       University of Oxford, England, UK               Post-Doctoral             Physical Chemistry

2000-2002       Columbia University, New York, NY           Post-Doctoral             Computational Biology

 

 

POSITIONS HELD

 

1999-2000       University College, Oxford                           Research Lecturer       Physical Chemistry

2002-2007       University of California, San Francisco          Assistant Professor      Pharmaceutical Chemistry

2007-               University of California, San Francisco          Associate Professor    Pharmaceutical Chemistry

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS

 

1989                David Starr Jordan Scholar, Stanford University

1993                Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University

1993                American Institute of Chemists Graduation Award, Stanford University

1995-1998       National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow

1997                Rao Prize, for “outstanding student talk” at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (Ohio State University)

1998-1999       Fannie and John Hertz Fellow

1999-2000       EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K.) Visiting Fellow

2000                Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate “Team Publication of the Year Award” (See peer-reviewed publications, #10).

2000-2002       National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biological Informatics

2004                NSF CAREER Award

2004                Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

2006                UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean’s Recognition for Excellence in Teaching

 

 

TEACHING

 

1993-1994       Teaching Assistant, Stanford University Department of Chemistry

1993-1994       Substitute High School Teacher, San Francisco Bay Area

1994-1995       Teaching Assistant, MIT Department of Chemistry

1995                Author of textbook with Richard N. Zare (see publication list)

1997                Guest Lecturer, Chemistry 5.74, MIT

2000                External Tutor, Advanced Physical Chemistry, Keble College, University of Oxford

2002                Laboratory section instructor, Chemistry 111

2003                Developed new class, "Quantum Mechanics", 3 units

2003                Lecturer, Chemistry 111 (Thermodynamics)

2003-2005       Course director and lecturer, Biophysics 206 (Computation of Biological Molecules)

2003-2004       Guest lecturer, Biochemistry 200A (Macromolecules)

2004-2005       Course director and lecturer, Chemistry 111 (Thermodynamics)

2006-2007       Lecturer, Biophysics 204 (Macromolecular Interactions)

2007                Faculty facilitator, BBC Journal Club

2007                Course director and lecturer, BMI 204 (Computational Biology)

 

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

UCSF CAMPUS-WIDE

 

2005-2006       Chair, School of Pharmacy Faculty Council

2005-2006       Member, UCSF Academic Senate Coordinating Committee

2005-2006       Member, UCSF Academic Senate Executive Committee

2005-2006       Member ex officio, Academic Planning and Budget Committee

2005-2006       Member, Chancellor’s Council

2006                Member, Task Force Reviewing Proposed Changes to APM 220

2006                Member, Task Force Reviewing Proposed Changes to APM 700, 710, 711, and 080

2007                Reviewer, Packard Foundation Fellowships (internal competition)

2007                Reviewer, Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award (internal competition)

 

SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

 

2003-2004       Student Welfare Committee

2004                Admissions Interviewer

2004-2006       Member, Faculty Council

2004-2005       Strategic Planning Committee

2005-2007       Taskforce on Underrepresented Minorities

 

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

 

2003-2004       Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry                                          Faculty Search Committee

2006-2007       Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry                                          Faculty Search Committee

2007-               Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry                                             Chair Search Committee

 

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

 

2003, 2006      Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program                               Admissions Committee

2004-now        Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program                                Curriculum Committee

2003                Graduate Group in Biophysics                                                                Admissions Committee

2004-now        Graduate Group in Biophysics                                                                 Curriculum Committee

2004-2005       Graduate Group in Biophysics                                                        Organizer, Asilomar Retreat

2006-               Graduate Group in Biophysics                                                                   Executive Committee

 

GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

2004                Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs          Teleconference Reviewer

                        (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Review Panel)

2004                U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation            Reviewer

2006                ACS Petroleum Research Fund                                            Peer Review

2006                NIH Mail Reviewer                                                              Peer Review

 

SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

 

2005-               Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Biology and Drug Design

2006-               Editorial Advisory Board, Chemistry Central Journal (an open access journal)

2003-2006       Faculty of 1000 Reviewer, “Biomacromolecule-Ligand Interactions” section

Ongoing           Reviewer for:  Nature, PNAS, Structure, JACS, Biochemistry, PLOS Computational Biology, Protein Science, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Journal of Proteomics Research, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Biomacromolecules, ChemMedChem, Biopolymers, Nucleic Acids Research.

2006                Guest, Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry Editorial Committee Planning Meeting

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

 

INTERNATIONAL

 

2000                CECAM Workshop on Highly Excited Polyatomic Molecules, Lyon, France

2006                Canadian Computational Chemistry Conference

 

NATIONAL

 

1998                Air Force Office of Sponsored Research Contractors' Meeting, Monterey, California

1998                ITAMP Workshop on Quantum Nonintegrability, Harvard University

1998                ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA.  Speaker and Session Chair, “Special Topics in High-Resolution Spectroscopy”

2002                SIAM Life Sciences Conference, Symposium on Multiscale Modeling, Boston, MA

2003                NIGMS “High Accuracy Comparative Modeling Workshop”, Bethesda, MD

2006                ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA

2006                ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA

2007                ACS National Meeting, speaker and session chair, Chicago, IL

2007                Gordon Research Conference:  Computer-Aided Drug Design

 

OTHER INVITED PRESENTATIONS

 

1998                Molecular Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Series, MIT

1999                Algebraic Methods in Molecular Physics Conference, University of Washington

1999                Oxford University Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

2001                Stanford University Physical Chemistry Seminar

2001                Northwestern University Chemistry Seminar

2001                Cornell University Chemistry Seminar

2001                University of California (Berkeley) Chemistry Seminar

2001                MIT Chemistry Seminar

2001                New York University Chemistry Seminar

2001                University of Colorado (Boulder) Chemistry Seminar

2002                University of California (San Francisco) Pharmaceutical Chemistry Seminar

2002                University of Texas (Austin) Chemistry Seminar

2002                University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Chemistry Seminar

2002                University of Chicago Chemistry Seminar

2002                Graduate Group in Biophysics Retreat, UCSF, faculty speaker selected by students

2004                World Molecular Engineering Network Conference, Los Cabos, Mexico

2004                Chiron Corporation

2004                Center for Computational Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

2004                UCSF Seminars in Quantitative Biology

2004                UCSF Biophysics/CCB retreat, Asilomar, CA (conference organizer and speaker)

2004                eCheminfo, “Applications of Cheminformatics and Modelling to Drug Discovery”

2005                Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, U. Pittsburgh

2005                UC Santa Cruz Chemistry Seminar

2005                Biogen, Cambridge, MA

2005                Genentech, South San Francisco, CA

2005                Biological and Medical Informatics Graduate Group Retreat, faculty speaker

2006                University of Minnesota, New Frontiers in Drug Discovery: The Power of Chemical Library Development and Screening

2006                Schrodinger Users’ Summit, panelist and invited speaker

2006                Amgen, South San Francisco, CA

2006                Novartis, Emeryville, CA

2006                Theravance, South San Francisco, CA

2006                Arizona State University, Biological Physics Seminar

2006                University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Chemical Biology Lecture Series

2007                Sanibel Symposium, University of Florida

2007                Columbia University, Department of Chemistry seminar series

2008                Keystone Symposium on Computer-Aided Drug Design