William "Bil" Clemons, Jr. is an American structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Caltech.[1] He is best known for his work solving the atomic structure of the ribosome with dissertation advisor, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Venki Ramakrishnan.[2] He is also known for his work on the structure and function of proteins involved in membrane translocation and docking of proteins, including the membrane protein translocation channel SecY,[3] chaperones involved in the targeting of tail-anchored membrane proteins in the Get pathway,[4] and signal recognition proteins of the Twin-arginine translocation pathway.[5] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[6]
In January 2006, Clemons began as an assistant professor in the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division at the California Institute of Technology.[7] In 2013, Clemons became professor of Biochemistry. He has also held a Visiting Professor appointment from 2018-2019 at the Institute of Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic.
Diversity and Inclusion
As a member of the President's Diversity Council at Caltech, Clemons mentors and advocates for diversity and enrollment of minority students in STEM education.[8] He has spoken on the intersection of science and diversity as an invited speaker.[8]
^Ramakrishnan, Venki (September 20, 2018). "Getting started in Utah". Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome. Oneworld Publications. ISBN9781786074379.
