Host institution assignments: Laboratories in the South and Midwest, and Yale University
Email: rhodesc@hhmi.org
Phone: 301-215-8808
Carl Rhodes manages the HHMI investigator reviews and competitions. Other responsibilities include serving as liaison to the HHMI Bioethics Advisory Board, the HHMI–Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Exchange Program and issues related to HHMI's open access policy.
Rhodes earned a BA in zoology and mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD in biology from the Johns Hopkins University. Before joining HHMI in 2000, he was associate dean for graduate programs in biology and biomedical sciences and professor of biochemistry and biology at Stanford University.
His research focused on the use of single-strand nucleases to map deletions in viral chromosomes and development of the nick translation technique to label DNA probes in vitro. Rhodes is responsible for innovations in teaching undergraduate biochemistry, including development of texts devoted to problem solving and examination writing.
