Journal of Glycobiology
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Neil PJ Price

Biography

Neil Price is a government research scientist at the USDA’s National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (USDA-NCAUR) in Peoria, IL. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of London (1990), and research experience at the John Innes Institute, Norwich, U.K., University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Paul-Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, before joining the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center in Athens, GA. He previously held a faculty position at the Dept. of Pharmacology, U. of Rochester, NY, before joining the USDA-NCAUR national laboratory in 2003. EMBO Fellowship (1990); CNRS-INRA (France) Postdoctoral Fellowship (1991); Procter and Gamble Exploratory Research Prize (1997); American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB, 1994 – present); American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2003 –present)

Research Interest

Neil’s research includes carbohydrate analysis, and especially the application of mass spectrometry and NMR to microbial metabolism.  Biosynthesis of tunicamycin analogs.  Proton-deuterium  exchange mass spectrometry (HXMS).  Plant chitnases. Biosynthesis of bacterial and plant call walls.