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Dr. Walker is a professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a director of MIT's Introductory Biology Program. He received his B.Sc. degree from Carleton University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, he was a postdoctoral fellow at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California–Berkeley. Dr. Walker was recently named an American Cancer Society Research Professor. He has received several awards, including the Charles Ross Scholar Award for Cancer Research, the Arthur C. Smith Award (for contributions to undergraduate life), and the 2006 Environmental Mutagen Society Award. He has served as an editor of the Journal of Bacteriology for 16 years, finishing a 10-year term as editor-in-chief in 2001. He has also been a Sigma Xi Distinguished Visiting Professor (New Jersey Medical School) and participated in the Stone Lectureship, Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (1994) and serves on the editorial boards of DNA Repair, Mutation Research, and Current Opinion in Microbiology as well as on the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Microbiology.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Graham Walker studies how cells respond to DNA damage as well as the biological interdependence of certain bacteria and plants. He will establish an education group—composed of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates—to focus on curricular development, including Web-based materials, for introductory biology.
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