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CURRICULUM VITAE |
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Phone: (860) 486-4061
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Employment History
9/1996 - present Full Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut
10/1996-present Adjunct Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Summer
‘99/’00/’01/’02/’03/’04/’05/'06/07/08 Visiting Professor at the Mannheim University of
Applied Sciences
Spring 1996 Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria
Fall 1995 Offer to chair the Plant Physiology section at the University of Jena, FRG; rejected fall 96
9/1995 - 9/1996 Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut
9/1989 - 8/1995 Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut
8/1987 - 8/1989 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Lincoln Taiz, U.C. Santa Cruz.
5/1982 - 5/1987 Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Prof. Dr. F.-W. Bentrup, Institute for Botany, University of Giessen, FRG.
6/1980
- 2/1982 Research and Teaching Assistant in Plant
Physiology, University of Tübingen, FRG
Professional Activities:
6/2006 Recipient of the Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award in Research Excellence
1/2005 -
present Member of the Editorial Board of BMC Evolutionary Biology
1/2005
- present Member of the Editorial Board of Biology Direct
1/2003
- present Co-Head of the Bioinformatics Services
Facility at the University of Connecticut Biotechnology Center
6/2002
- 6/2006 Associate of the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research Program in Evolutionary Biology
6/2001 - 8/2004 Member of the Committee on the Origins and
Evolution of Life of the National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board
7/2000 Elected
chair for the Origin of Life Gordon Conference 2003 (vice-chair2002)
5/1997 - 2000 Member of the Exobiology
Discipline Working Group (NASA)
1/1996
- present Member of the Editorial Board of Origins of Life
and Evolution of the Biosphere
1/2000
- 12/2002 ISSOL Regional Representative
1/1996 - 12/1998 Member of the Editorial Board of Botanica Acta
9/1990 - 9/1995 Chair of the Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Dept. Molec. and Cell Biol., University of Connecticut
9/1990 - present University of Connecticut Graduate School Faculty
3/1993 - 9/1998 Co-Head of the Plant Cell Culture Facility of the University of Connecticut Biotechnology Center
8/1987 - 8/1989 Recipient of Fellowship from the German Science Foundation (DFG)
9/1987 Recipient
of the Justus-Liebig-University prize for the best dissertation in the field of
natural sciences during 1986
Reviewer for the following
for Agencies: NSF, USDA, DOE, National Research Council, NASA, BARD,
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria), Canadian MRC
and NSERC, Recherches en sciences et en génie Canada (CRSNG);
Journals: Biochem. Biophys. Archives,
Biochemistry Journal, Biology Direct, Botanica Acta, BMC Genomics, BMC Molecular Evolution,
Cell Stress and Chaperones, Comparative Biochemistry, Current Biology, Gene, Genetics, Genome
Research, Geology, Journal Biological Chemistry, Journal for the Origin of Life
and Evolution of the Biosphere, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of
Molecular Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Microbial Reviews, Plant
Cell, Plant Physiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Science, Trends in Genetics, Trends in Ecology and Evolution;
Textbooks: Freeman, Simon and Schuster, and Sinauer
Meetings
co-organized:
"Gordon
Research Conference on the Origin of Life", Chair in Summer 2003,
"Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life" Co-Chair in Spring
2002,
"Life:
from Local Origins to Global Persistence" University of New Hampshire,
Durham, June 8-10, 1998
Annual
New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists (NEMEB) Meeting, Storrs, November
1995
Education
Ph.D.
7/1986 University of Giessen, FRG; Botany; (summa cum laude)
Diploma
4/1982 University of Tübingen, FRG; Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Biochemistry
Research and Teaching
Research Interests: Evolution
of Prokaryotes, Molecular Evolution, Origin and Early Evolution of Cellular
Life, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Genome comparison
Current Research Program: Evolution of Proton Pumping
ATPases, Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer
Current Research Personnel: 5 graduate students (4 Ph.D.,
1 M.Sc.), 2 postdocteral fellows
Society Memberships
International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
American Society for Microbiology
Society
for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Publications and Presentations