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Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Smith College
Office: Sabin Reed 230
Phone: (413)-585-3889
Fax: (413)-585-3786
Email: tschneid(at)email.smith.edu
Ph.D., Yale University, Organic Chemistry, 2001
Thesis: "Protein-Mediated Regulation of Dimeric Transcription Factor Assembly and Protein Kinase Activity"
Advisor: Alanna Schepartz
B.A., Williams College, Chemistry, 1994
Thesis: "The Bioactivity of Southeast Asian Dart Poison Components"
Advisor: David P. Richardson
Smith College, 2008-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
EnviroLogix, 2004-2008
Senior Scientist
Harvard Medical School, 2001-2004
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Christopher T. Walsh
CHM 223: Chemistry III: Organic Chemistry
CHM 222: Chemistry II: Organic Chemistry
Biosynthesis of natural products-how do enzymes catalyze the production of important bioactive molecules, and how can we reengineer this process to arrive at new derivatives with enhanced properties? We are currently focused on antibiotic biosynthesis and new routes to mitigate the problem of antibiotic resistance.
T. L. Schneider & B. R. Linton, "Introduction to protein structure through genetic diseases," J. Chem. Ed. 2008, 85, 662-665.
T. L. Schneider, R. S. Mathew, K. P. Rice, K. Tamaki, J. L. Wood & A. Schepartz, "Increasing the kinase specificity of K252a by protein surface recognition," Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1695-1698.
T. L. Schneider & C. T. Walsh, "Portability of oxidase domains in nonribosomal peptide synthetase modules," Biochemistry 2004, 43, 15946-15955.
T. L. Schneider, B. Shen & C. T. Walsh, "Oxidase domains in epothilone and bleomycin biosynthesis: thiazoline to thiazole oxidation during chain elongation," Biochemistry 2003, 42, 9722-9730.
T. L. Schneider, C. T. Walsh & S. E. O'Connor, "Utilization of alternate substrates by the first three modules of the epothilone synthetase assembly line," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11272-11273.
T. L. Schneider & A. Schepartz, "Hepatitis B virus protein pX enhances monomer assembly pathway of bZIP.DNA complexes," Biochemistry 2001, 40, 2835-2843.
C. A. Carter, R. W. Forney, E. A. Gray, A. M. Gehring, T. L. Schneider, D. B. Young, C. M. Lovett, Jr., L. Scott, A. C. Messer & D. P. Richardson, "Toxicarioside A. A new cardenolide isolated from Antiaris toxicaria latex-derived dart poison. Assignment of the 1H- and 13C-NMR shifts for an antiarigenin aglycone," Tetrahedron 1997, 53, 13557-13566.
