John L. Markley PhD

John L. Markley received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University in 1969, where he worked with Oleg Jardetzky and Elkan R. Blout. His graduate research included NMR studies of helix-coil transitions in polyamine acids and the preparation and NMR investigation of selectively deuterated proteins. The latter project was made possible through funding and access to excellent research facilities at the Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, where he spent 30 months.

As a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow with Melvin P. Klein at the University of California, Berkeley, he made the transition from continuous-wave to pulse Fourier transform NMR spectroscopy and investigated NMR relaxation mechanisms. He joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in 1972 and by 1981 had moved up the ranks to Professor.

He relocated to the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983, where he founded the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison (1985), the BioMagResBank (BMRB; 1990), and the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics (2000). He is currently Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure and chairs the Graduate Program in Biophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.