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John Carbon Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, MCDB |
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Professor Carbon received the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Chemistry in 1952 from the University of Illinois, and the Ph.D. degree in 1955 from Northwestern University. After a year of postdoctoral study in enzymology, Dr. Carbon joined the research staff of the pharmaceutical firm, Abbott Laboratories. He spent twelve years at Abbott, carrying out research on heterocyclic nitrogen compounds, purine antimetabolites, cancer chemotherapy, and thiopyrimidines in transfer RNA. During the decade from 1963-1973, Dr. Carbon and coworkers studied the biochemistry and genetics of transfer RNA, and were successful in elucidating the molecular mechanism of the genetic suppression of missense and frameshift mutations in bacterial systems. He came to Santa Barbara in 1968 as Associate Professor of Biochemistry and was appointed to the rank of Professor in 1970. Collaborative studies carried out with his wife, Dr. Louise Clarke, have led to the introduction of practical methods for the use of recombinant DNA techniques to construct genomic "libraries", the development of yeast as a system for DNA cloning, and the first isolation and characterization of functional centromere DNA. Dr. Carbon is an American Cancer Society Research Professor, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of the UCSB Faculty Research Award, and serves on the editorial board of the journal, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-3163 Mailing Address
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
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