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 |  Molecular Biology, 4/e Robert F. Weaver
Robert F. Weaver| Rob Weaver was born in Topeka, Kansas, and
grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He received his
bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the College
of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1964. He
earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Duke
University in 1969, then spent two years doing
postdoctoral research at the University of
California, San Francisco, where he studied the
structure of eukaryotic RNA polymerases with
William J. Rutter.
He joined the faculty of the University of
Kansas as an assistant professor of biochemistry
in 1971, was promoted to associate professor,
and then to full professor in 1981. In 1984, he
became chair of the Department of Biochemistry,
and served in that capacity until he was named
Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences in 1995.
Prof. Weaver is the divisional dean for the science and mathematics departments
within the College, which includes supervising 10 different departments and
programs. As a professor of molecular biosciences, he teaches courses in introductory
molecular biology and the molecular biology of cancer. In his research laboratory,
undergraduates and graduate students participated in research on the molecular biology
of a baculovirus that infects caterpillars.
Prof. Weaver is the author of many scientific papers resulting from research
funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and
the American Cancer Society. He has also coauthored two genetics textbooks and
has written two articles on molecular biology in the National Geographic
Magazine. He has spent two years performing research in European Laboratories
as an American Cancer Society Research Scholar, one year in Zurich, Switzerland,
and one year in Oxford, England. |
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