Martin J. Stillman

Professor,Chemistry Department
Office: Rm 064 ChB,
Labs: 051, 052 055, ChB
Phone (Office): ext 83821
Phone (Lab): ext 86358
E-mail: stillman@uwo.ca

Research Group Homepage
www.stillmangroup.ca/

Education
B. Sc and Ph. D. University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK)
PDF University of Alberta, Canada
Professor of Chemistry; cross-appointed as Professor of Biology, Associate Chair, Chemistry (undergraduate education policy)

Research Areas
Mechanistic and electronic structure studies of bioinorganic systems.
Studies using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, magnetic circular dichroism, emission and emission lifetime techniques of metal-binding to proteins, porphyrins, heme proteins, the Isd proteins in Staphylococcus aureus, and metal-induced protein folding in metallothioneins.

Selected Publications
1. Summers K. L.; Mahrok A.K.; Dryden M.D.M.; Stillman M.J. (2012) "Structural properties of metal-free apometallothioneins" Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 425: 485-492.
2. Tiedemann, M.; Heinrichs, D.E.; Stillman, M.J. (2012) "The multi-protein heme shuttle pathway in Staphylococcus aureus: Isd cog-wheel kinetics", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 16578-16585. DOI: 10.1021/ja305115y.
3. Tiedemann, M.T.; Pinter, T.B.J.; Stillman, M.J. (2012) "Insight into blocking heme transfer by exploiting molecular interactions in the core Isd heme transporters IsdA-NEAT, IsdC-NEAT and IsdE of Staphylococcus aureus", Metallomics, 4, 751-760.  DOI: 10.1039/C2MT20067H  (featured on cover). (TOP 10 downloads in July, 2012)
4. Sutherland, D.E.K.; Summers, K.L; Stillman, M.J. (2012) "Noncooperative metalation of metallothionein 1a and its isolated domains", Biochemistry, 51: 6690-6700. DOI: /10.1021/bi3004523,
5. Sutherland, D.E.K.; Willans, M.J.; Stillman, M.J. (2012) "Single domain metallothioneins: Supermetalation of human MT 1a", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 3290-3299.