You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (March 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Lila M. Gierasch]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Lila M. Gierasch}} to the talk page.
Lila Mary Gierasch (born 1948 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an Americanbiochemist and biophysicist. At present, she is a distinguished Professor working on "protein folding in the cell" in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2]
Education and early career
Lila M. Gierasch, like her mother Marian Bookhout Gierasch, studied at Mount Holyoke College.[3] She graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, and earned her doctorate in biophysics from Harvard University in 1975.[4]
Gierasch's research has focused on the issue of protein folding. She has studied the relationship between amino acid sequences and protein structure, focusing in particular on how proteins fold in vivo.[4] Her recent work has utilized computer modeling to analyze how the protein folding process occurs.[1]
Personal life
Gierasch met her husband John Pylant in Texas, and they were married in 1991.[8]
