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 |
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