Ronald W. Davis
Ronald Wayne Davis ( born July 17, 1941) is an American geneticist and professor of biochemistry and genetics at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Life
Davis graduated from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois, a Bachelor's degree in chemistry, physics, mathematics and botany and a Ph.D. in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) in Pasadena, California. As a postdoctoral fellow Davis went to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before he became a member of the faculty at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Work
Davis is considered a leader in the development of biotechnological methods, particularly in the development and application of genomics and recombinant DNA in biological systems. So Davis developed a series of 5,000 strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, each of which lacks a single gene. Methods for other model organisms - including humans - have been developed. Earlier merits Davis ' lie in the development of quantitative studies of DNA by electron microscopy and the R -loop technique for electron microscopic mapping of RNA coding units.