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Ian Ross Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, MCDB |
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Professor Ross received his B.S. degree from George Washington University in 1952 and the Ph.D. degree in Mycology from McGill University, Montreal in 1957. His post-doctoral research was with Kenneth B. Raper at the University of Wisconsin (1957-1958) on the cellular slime molds. From 1958 to 1959 he was on the faculty of the Department of Botany, Yale University, while working on the genetics and physiology of mating interactions and morphogenesis in plasmodial slime molds. He moved to UCSB in 1964, where he continued his work on the physiology and genetics of slime mold development for several years before turning to the molecular biology of developmental regulation in filamentous fungi - which led to a current interest in the role of mitochondria in aging in fungi. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals and on the national executive committees of major mycological societies. He has served as reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Agriculture, and various other international agencies. He received the Mycological Society of America Weston Award for Teaching Excellence in 1987 and the MSA Distinguished Mycologist Award in 1999. He was a BP Venture Research Fellow from 1987 to 1991. His 1979 text, Biology of the Fungi, was an innovative approach to the study of fungi that influenced a generation of young experimental mycologists. His most recent book, Aging of Cells, Humans and Societies (Wm. C. Brown, pub., 1995), reflects his interest in research on the underlying causes of the aging processes in all organisms. In 2001 Dr. Ross received the the Chancellors award for excellence in undergraduate research mentoring Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-2784 Mailing Address
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
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