Douglas C. Wallace
Douglas Cecil Wallace ( born November 6, 1946 in Cumberland, Maryland ) is a geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Life
Wallace earned in 1968 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York an undergraduate degree in genetics and developmental biology, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1972 and a master's degree in 1975 a Ph.D. in microbiology and human genetics. His dissertation was entitled Cytoplasmic genetics in mammalian tissue culture cells. As a postdoctoral fellow he remained at Yale University before 1976, a professorship ( Assistant Professor ), received at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. In 1983 he became Professor ( Adjunct Professor ) for biochemistry, anthropology, and pediatrics (genetics ) at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1996 to 2002, Ben was responsible for the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO ) conducting in the field of mitochondrial DNA worked. In 2002 he was appointed professor of molecular biology at the University of California in Irvine, California, and was director of its Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics. In 2006 he hette a visiting professor at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Republic of China. 2010 Wallace joined as a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and Foundation Professor of Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Work
Wallace is considered a leader in the study of mitochondrial DNA. He led the mitochondrial genetics in the molecular genetics. So Wallace was in 1975 for the first time ever a genetic disorder in the field of mitochondrial DNA show ( resistance to chloramphenicol ) or 1990 describe a mitochondrial mutation as the cause of a particular form of myoclonic epilepsy. Wallace was instrumental in the Mitochondrial Genome Project and developed new methods for the analysis of mitochondrial DNA.