Dr Elsa Garcin is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Dr Garcin obtained her B. Sc. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Marseille in France, and received her M.S. degree in ÒBiological Crystallography and NMRÓ and PhD degree in Physics from the UniversitŽ Joseph Fourier in Grenoble (France), where she worked with Prof. Juan-Carlos Fontecilla-Camps. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Elizabeth Getzoff and John Tainer at the Scripps Research Institute before moving to UMBC in 2008.

Dr GarcinÕs research interests include structural biology (x-ray crystallography and small-angle x-ray scattering), enzyme catalysis and regulation, and conformational changes, in particular in the nitric oxide pathway.