Maynard Olson
Victor Maynard Olson ( born October 2, 1943 in Washington, DC) is an American geneticist at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington.
Life
Olson earned after studying at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) in Pasadena, California, in 1970 at the later Nobel Laureate Henry Taube at Stanford University in Stanford, California, a Ph.D. in chemistry. First, Olson received a professorship ( Assistant Professor ) of Chemistry at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
During a sabbatical year at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington Olson turned to genetics. In 1979 he became a professor of genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1992, Olson is back at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is professor of medical genetics and computer science (Computer Science).
Work
Olson studied yeast as a genetic system. Reach him with Ben Hall in Seattle pioneering work on tRNA from yeast. Among others, he was one of the first users of the restriction fragment length polymorphism. Olson has developed tools to characterize methods midsize gene sequences ( 103-106 base pairs ) by means of physical (Orthogonal field alternation gelelectrophoresis, OFAGE ), biological ( yeast artificial chromosome, YAC ) and sequence- analytical (sequence - tagged sites, STS) and a high-resolution create physical gene map of the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Olson's results play a key role in projects to genome analysis and provided the basis for the organization of the Human Genome Project, where he was involved in a managerial capacity for Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Recent work dealing with the genetic changes that everlasting often decades-long infestation of patients with cystic fibrosis ( CF) by making the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa and ultimately often lead to death of the patient. Olson is committed to ensuring that the results of genetic research come into the possession of the public.