- William T. Wickner
William T. Wickner born
March 13 ,1946 , the James C. Chilcott '20 Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry atDartmouth Medical School , is an authority on membrane fusion and inheritance, which is a fundamental problem in eukaryotic and bacterial cell biology.Bill Wickner is a 1967 graduate of
Yale University (chemistry) and a 1973 M.D. graduate ofHarvard Medical School . At Harvard, he worked with Eugene Kennedy.He conducted post-doctoral research with
Arthur Kornberg atStanford University , discovering the role of an RNA primer in the replication of DNA. He began his independent research career as a Mellon senior fellow at Stanford in 1974, where he initiated studies of asymmetric membrane assembly in bacteria and viral assembly.Wickner then spent 17 years on the faculty of
UCLA , during which time he earned honors including anAmerican Cancer Society Faculty Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and anNIH Merit Award.In 1993, he moved to
Dartmouth Medical School , where he became chair of the Biochemistry Department and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.Wickner has trained many successful scientists including Barbara Conradt, Elliott Crooke, Ulrich Hartl, Daniel Klionsky, Gail Mandel, Janet Shaw,
Pamela Silver , Gunnar von Heijne and Lois Weisman.External links
* [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wickner/] l Wickner home page at Dartmouth College
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