Roy Curtiss

Roy Curtiss, III is a professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at the University of Florida.[1] He was elected to 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

Roy was Charles H. McCauley Professor of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (1978–1983), Professor (1983–2005) and Chairman (1983–1993) of Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, and Professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at Arizona State University (2005–2015). He was the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology within the 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]

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References
  1. "Roy Curtiss III Faculty Page". Archived from the original on 15 December 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  2. "72 NEW MEMBERS CHOSEN BY ACADEMY". National Academy of Sciences. May 1, 2001. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  3. "Dr. Roy Curtiss III '56". College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  4. "Roy Curtiss". Arizona State University. Retrieved 21 January 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. Jun 21, 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
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