 | Shiladitya DasSarma
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, United States of America | | | Faculty Member: Microbiology > Microbial Evolution & Genomics [ since 4 July 2001 ] |
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Shiladitya DasSarma is a Professor in the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Center of Marine Biotechnology, and the Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland at Baltimore. He received his B.S.(Honors) degree in 1979 in Chemistry from Indiana University and his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1984 from the Department of Biology at the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a student of Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana and Uttam L. RajBhandary. He was a postdoctoral student from 1984-1986 in the Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School with Howard M. Goodman. He served on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst from 1986-2001.
Dr. DasSarma's research program is focused on the post-genomics, genomics, biotechnology, and molecular biology of halophilic archaea, and more generally on extremophiles and diverse microorganisms inhabiting our planet. Some specific areas of past and current interest include transposable elements causing genetic variability, DNA rearrangements in chromosome and plasmids, genome mapping and sequencing, structure, transcription, and regulation of photosynthetic and buoyancy genes, gene regulation by oxygen and light, left-handed Z-DNA, DNA replication, and computer applications in molecular biology and education. Dr. DasSarma has co-authored about 100 scientific publications and is co-inventor on three US patents.
Some recent professional activities of Dr. DasSarma include serving as Editor-in-Chief of the BioMed Central online Open Access journal, Saline Systems, and editing the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press manual "Archaea: A Laboratory Manual-Halophiles". He has also served on a variety of National Science Foundation Advisory Panels, as Visiting Program Director of NSF's Metabolic Biochemistry Program, and on a National Institutes of Health Study Section. He co-taught the UMBI-COMB Workshop on Extremophiles and Archaea, and Applied Bioinformatics in the Graduate Program in Life Sciences at UMB. He organized and led the Halobacterium Genome Consortium and participated in the American Academy of Microbiology Colloquium on Microbial Genome Sequencing. | Home page
http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~dassarma |
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