2007-Present: Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry 2009: Charles and Nora L. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research, Montana State University 2003-2006: Executive Board, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University 1998-1999: Armenise Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School 1994-1998: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1993: Outstanding Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences 1990-1993: Predoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association

Biochemistry and Protein Structure

Menon, S and Lawrence C.M. : Helix-Turn-Helix Motif in Encyclopedia of Genetics, (2012)2nd Edition (Maloy, S. and Hughes, K., Eds.) Elsevier (In Press)

Heinemann J., Maaty W. S., Gauss G. H. , Akkaladevi N., Brumfield S. K., Rayaprolu V., Young M.J., Lawrence C.M., Bothner B.: Fossil record of an archaeal HK97-like provirus. Virology (2011) 417, 362-368.

Lawrence, C. M., and White, M. F. : Recognition of archaeal CRISPR RNA; no P in the alindromic repeat? Structure (2011) 19, 142-4

Menon S.K., Eilers B.J., Young M.J., Lawrence C.M. : The crystal structure of D212 from sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus ragged hills reveals a new member of the PD-(D/E)XK nuclease superfamily? J Virol. (2010) 84(12):5890-7.

Anonymous : 3D presentation of structural and image data. J Biol Chem (2009) 284, 21101.

Fulton, J., Bothner, B., Lawrence, M., Johnson, J. E., Douglas, T., and Young, M.: Genetics, biochemistry and structure of the archaeal virus STIV. Biochemical Society Transactions (2009) 37, 114-117.

Lawrence, C. M., Menon, S., Eilers, B. J., Bothner, B., Khayat, R., Douglas, T., and Young, M. J.: Structural and functional studies of archaeal viruses J Biol Chem. (2009) 284(19):12599-12603.

Menon, S. K., Maaty, W. S., Corn, G. J., Kwok, S. C., Eilers, B. J., Kraft, P., Gillitzer, E., Young, M. J., Bothner, B., and Lawrence, C. M. : Cysteine usage in Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus 1 and extension to hyperthermophilic viruses in general. Virology 376, 270-278.

Larson, E. T., Eilers, B., Menon, S., Reiter, D., Ortmann, A., Young, M. J., and Lawrence, C. M. : A winged-helix protein from suffiblobus turreted icosahedral virus points toward stabilizing disulfide bonds in the intracellular proteins of a hyperthermophilic virus Virology (2007) 368, 249-261.

Larson, E. T., Eilers, B. J., Reiter, D., Ortmann, A. C., Young, M. J., and Lawrence, C. M.: A new DNA binding protein highly conserved in diverse crenarchaeal viruses Virology (2007) 363, 387-396.

Khayat, R., Tang, L., Larson, E. T., Lawrence, C. M., Young, M., and Johnson, J. E. : Structure of an archaeal virus capsid protein reveals a common ancestry to eukaryotic and bacterial viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2005) 102, 18944-18949.

Kraft, P., Gauss, G. H., Young, M., and Lawrence, C. M. : Structural Studies of Crenarchaeal Viral Proteins: Structure Suggests Function in Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park (2005) (Inskeep, W. P., and McDermot, T. R., Eds.) pp 305-316, Montana State University, Bozeman.

Kraft, P., Oeckinghaus, A., Kummel, D., Gauss, G. H., Gilmore, J., Wiedenheft, B., Young, M., and Lawrence, C. M.: Crystal structure of F-93 from Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus 1, a winged-helix DNA binding protein. Journal of Virology (2004) 78, 11544-11550.

Kraft, P., Kummel, D., Oeckinghaus, A., Gauss, G. H., Wiedenheft, B., Young, M., and Lawrence, C. M. : Structure of D-63 from sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus 1: Surface properties of the dimeric four-helix bundle suggest an adaptor protein function Journal of Virology (2004) 78, 7438-7442.

Larson, E. T., Reiter, D., Young, M., and Lawrence, C. M. : Structure of A197 from Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus: a crenarchaeal viral glycosyltransferase exhibiting the GT-A fold. Journal of Virology (2006) 80, 7636-7644.