Biography
Tiffany joined the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 2008. She works with the intellectual property practice as a patent agent assisting them in matters in the biotechnology, biochemistry, computer science and electronics industries. Tiffany has prosecuted patents through all aspects of normal examination including filing patents, responding to Office Actions and filing Appeals.
Tiffany has also favorably defended a multi-million dollar biotechnology patent during an Ex Parte Reexamination proceeding.
Professional experience
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
- Pre-doctoral Fellowship, W. M. Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology of the Gulf Coast Consortia (July 2002- July 2005)
Education
Education
2008 - Ph.D., Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine
2001 - B.S., Biochemistry, College of Letters and Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
2001 - B.S., cum laude, Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
Admissions
Admissions
- US Patent and Trademark Agent
Publications
Publications
- Weksberg TE, Lynch GC, Krause KL, Pettitt BM. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Trichomonas vaginalis Ferredoxin Show a Loop-Cap Transition.” Biophysical Journal. 2007 May 15;92(10):3337-45.
- Chen C, Beck BW, Krause KL, Weksberg TE, Pettitt BM. “The Effects of Dimerization of Serratia marcescens Endonuclease on Water Dynamics” Biopolymers. 2007 Feb 15;85(3):241-52
- Kong Y, Shen Y, Warth TE, Ma J. “Conformational pathways in the gating of Escherichia coli mechanosensitive channel.” PNAS. 2002 Apr 30;99(9):5999-6004.
- Kim J, Noskov VN, Lu X, Bergmann A, Ren X, Warth T, Richardson P, Kouprina N, Stubbs L. “Discovery of a novel, paternally expressed ubiquitin-specific processing protease gene through comparative analysis of an imprinted region of mouse chromosome 7 and human chromosome 19q13.4.” Genome Research. 2000 Aug, 10(8): 1138-47.
Speaking engagements
Speaking engagements
- "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Trichomonas Vaginalis Ferredoxin," Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Houston, Texas, February 2004
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
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