Stephen C. Harvey (born 1940) is a structural biologist with research interest in

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s, the

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structure and high density lipoprotein. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysic

at the

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and professor emeritus and

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eminent scholar emeritus in th
School of Biology
at the

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. Harvey did his undergraduate work at the

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(Berkeley), where he received his A.B. degree in physics. In the 1960s, he worked as a rocket test engineer on the Apollo program (the lunar mission project) and served with the

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, before entering graduate school in physics at

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, where he received his PhD in biophysics in 1971. Before moving to Georgia Tech in 2003, Harvey was professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is past president of the

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and co-author, with J. Andrew McCammon, of the classic book on

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, ''Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids'' (

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, 1987; ). Harvey is married to the artist Marie Weaver. They live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Marie Weaver and Steve Harvey Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graphic DesignThe Marie Weaver and Steve Harvey Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graphic Design
. was set up in 2003 by the University of Alabama at Birmingham in honor of associate professor of

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Marie Weaver and her husband, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Steve Harvey for their strong support of the arts at UAB.

Selected publications

*J.A. McCammon and S.C. Harvey, Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (Cambridge University Press, London, 1987). *S.C. Harvey, "The Scrunchworm Hypothesis: Transitions Between A-DNA and B-DNA Provide the Driving Force for Genome Packaging in Double-Stranded DNA Bacteriophages," J Struct Biol 189:1-8 (2015). *M.R. Smyda and S.C. Harvey, “The Entropic Cost of Polymer Confinement,” J Phys Chem B 116, 10928-10934 (2012). *S.C. Harvey, A.S. Petrov, B. Devkota and M.B. Boz, “Computational Approaches to Modeling Viral Structure and Assembly,” Methods Enzymol 487, 513-543 (2011). *A.S. Petrov and S.C. Harvey, “Packaging Double-Helical DNA into Viral Capsids: Structures, Forces and Energetics,” Biophys J 95, 497-502 (2008). *J.A. Mears, M.R. Sharma, R.R. Gutell, A.S. McCook, P.E. Richardson, T.R. Caulfield, R.K. Agrawal and S.C. Harvey, “A Structural Model of the Mitochondrial Ribosome,” J. Mol. Biol. 358, 193-212 (2006). *J.P. Segrest, M.K. Jones, A.E. Klon, C.J. Sheldahl and S.C. Harvey, "Apolipoprotein A-I in Discoidal High Density Lipoprotein: A Detailed Molecular Belt Model,” J. Biol. Chem. 274, 31755-31758 (1999).

References

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