Sarah Louise Veatch is an American biophysicist, associate professor of biophysics at University of Michigan.

Sarah Louise Veatch
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Washington
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Early life

Veatch was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts by her mother, a medical doctor, and her father, William R. Veatch, a membrane biophysicist.[1]

Education

Veatch's interest in physics began in high school. She was involved in her high school's gay–straight alliance in the mid-1990s "but struggled with her LGBT identity until college".[2] She earned a B.S. in physics in 1998 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[1][3] Her undergraduate thesis was titled VLF magnetic field correlation measurements between LIGO sites. Her thesis supervisor was Rainer Weiss.[4]

Veatch worked for a year as an electrical engineer, programming lighting consoles used in auditoriums. In 2004, she completed her Ph.D. in physics at University of Washington under her advisor Sarah L. Keller, after which she conducted one year of postdoctoral studies with Robert E. W. Hancock at University of British Columbia. She also worked with Jenifer Thewalt at Simon Fraser University. Veatch completed further postdoctoral studies with Barbara A. Baird and David Holowka at Cornell University. Here, she built upon her Ph.D. work, exploring phase separation in isolated biological membranes.[1]

Career

After her postdoctoral work, Veatch was hired as an Assistant Professor of Biophysics at the University of Michigan,[1] and was promoted to the position of associate professor in May 2017.[5] She researches the physical properties of lipids and the influence on the plasma membrane function.[6] She investigates signalling pathways initiated in the membrane and has developed new super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques to further study interactions in the membrane.[7]

Veatch is a Presidential Visiting Fellow of Yale University 2019-2020 where she is working on ion channel function and phase transitions in membranes and polymers alongside Ben Machta.[7]

Awards and honors

In 2012, Veatch won a Sloan Research Fellowship.[6] In 2014, she was awarded the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award "for her substantial contributions to the field of membrane physical chemistry as it translates into biological systems."[8]

She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for foundational work in understanding the miscibility phase transition and associated critical phenomena in membranes, and for rigorously applying these physical concepts to biological processes".[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sarah Veatch". The Biophysical Society. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  2. ↑ "Where are all the LGBT scientists? Sexuality and gender identity in science | www.scienceinschool.org". www.scienceinschool.org. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  3. ↑ Unsay, Joseph D. (2017-03-27). "Where are all the LGBT scientists? Sexuality and gender identity in science". Science in School. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  4. ↑ Veatch, Sarah Louise (1998). "VLF magnetic field correlation measurements between LIGO sites". library.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  5. ↑ "A Milestone for UofM Biophysics! | U-M LSA Biophysics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  6. 1 2 "Two U-M early-career scientists win 2012 Sloan research fellowships". University of Michigan News. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  7. 1 2 "Presidential Visiting Fellow 2019-2020 | Department of Physics". physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  8. ↑ "Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Veatch as she has received the 2014 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her substantial contributions to the field of membrane physical chemistry as it translates into biological systems! | U-M LSA Biophysics". lsa.umich.edu. 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  9. ↑ "2023 Fellows". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
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