Early life & school

1957 Born in Kolkata, India

1975 Graduated Valedictorian, Dunbar High School, Dunbar, West Virginia

Undergraduate education

1979 B.S. Chemistry (Honors), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Graduate education

1979-1984 Ph.D. Biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (Advisors: Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana and Uttam L.RajBhandary)

1980 Teaching Assistant (to Nobel Laureate Salvador Luria), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Postgraduate training

1984-1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Laboratory of Howard M. Goodman)

Employment

Summer 1986 Visiting Scientist, Unité de Physiologie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris

1986-1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1992-1997 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1997-2001 Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1997-1998 Visiting Program Director, Metabolic Biochemistry Program, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

2001-2010 Professor, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD

2010-present Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

2010-present Professor, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University System of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Publications

Seminars & Lectures

Popular Press

Climate Action

Recognition and Awards