Roy Curtiss

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Roy Curtiss III is a professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at the

United States National Academy of Sciences in 2001.[2]

Education

Curtiss earned his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1956[3] and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1962.[1] At Cornell, he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

Career

Curtiss was Charles H. McCauley Professor of Microbiology,

Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.[4] He has published more than 250 articles in scholarly journals (including a proposal for uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids, co-authored with Royston C. Clowes, Stanley Cohen, Naomi Datta, Stanley Falkow and Richard P. Novick)[5] and has secured multiple patents.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Roy Curtiss III Faculty Page". Archived from the original on December 15, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  2. ^ "72 NEW MEMBERS CHOSEN BY ACADEMY". National Academy of Sciences. May 1, 2001. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  3. ^ "Dr. Roy Curtiss III '56". College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  4. ^ "Roy Curtiss profile". Arizona State University. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  5. ^ Richard P. Novick et al., "Uniform Nomenclature for Bacterial Plasmids: A Proposal", Bacteriol. Rev., March 1976, pp. 168-189
  6. ^ "Leaders in Arizona biosciences honored at ABA awards dinner - ABA press release". Flinn Foundation. June 21, 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2010.