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Background

 
Post-doctoral Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory 1976-1979 
   
 
Ph.D. 1976 in Genetics, University of California, Berkeley - Dissertation:
 
The Role of the recF Pathway of Recombination in the Metabolism of UV-Irradiated DNA in Escherichia coli K-12" 
   
 
MA 1971 in Biology, California State University, San Diego - Dissertation:
 
A Mutational Analysis of Crown-Gall Formation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
   
 
BA 1969 in Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley - Honors Thesis:
   
A Faunal Analysis of Fossil Vertebrates from the Chinle Formation of Arizona
     
     
   

Recipient of 1998 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching

   
     
   

 Research

   
   
DNA Repair in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
   
Isolation and Characterization of bacteriophages from Agrobacterium tumefaciens