David Hogness
David Swenson Hogness ( born November 17, 1925 in Oakland, California) is an American biochemist, geneticist and developmental biologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.
Life
Hogness ' parents were chemists Thorfin R. Hogness and his wife Phoebe S. Hogness. David Hogness acquired in 1949 at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. in 1952 up there in biology and chemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with a scholarship ( Fellow ) of the National Research Council in Jacques Monod at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and with a grant from the National Science Foundation at New York University in New York City.
1955 took over Hogness first teaching activities ( Instructor ) in Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, before there was a first chair ( Assistant Professor ) in 1957. In 1959, he joined as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University in Stanford, California. In 1961 he became Associate Professor in 1966, he received a full professorship in 1989 in addition for Developmental Biology. He retired in 1999.
Hogness married in 1948 Judith Gore, the couple has two sons.
Work
Hogness could contribute significantly to the understanding of the ontogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster. He examined the role of the hormone ecdysone in the development of the fruit fly. Hogness and co-workers 1978, the TATA box ( Goldberg - Hogness box) as the starting sequence for transcription of genes in eukaryotes. Hogness ' work contributed to the discovery that the genetic material of eukaryotes coding (introns ) and non-coding (exons ) and contains sections that the expression of many genes is regulated by so-called cis- elements. Hogness contributed to the fusion of genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology to the field of genomics in.