Professional Experience

2000 - present, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1995 - present, Associate Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Beckman Research Institute

1994 - 2000, Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology, Beckman Research Institute

1985 - present, Director, Electron Microscope Facility, Beckman Research Institute

1986 - 1994, Associate Research Scientist, Beckman Research Institute

1983, Visiting Scientist, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland

1979 - 1986, Associate Research Scientist, City of Hope

1977 - 1978, International Research Fellow, University of Basel (Dr. Max M. Burger)

1975 - 1978, Junior Research Scientist, City of Hope

1972 - 1975, Research Fellow, Division of Biology, Caltech (Dr. Jean Paul Revel)

1968 - 1972, Pre-doctoral Fellow, Department of Botanical Sciences, UCLA (Dr. Park S. Nobel)


Education and Training

1977 - 1978, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Research Fellow, Cell Biology/Immunology

1972 - 1975, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, Research Fellow, Cell Biology/Immunology

1968 - 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., Botanical Sciences

1966, University of California, Davis, M.A., Botany

1965, University of California, Davis, B.S., Botany


This is an abbreviated document.  Full CV available upon request.  Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time.  Last updated: 10/08.

Honors and Awards

2006, Invited Speaker, Chicken Genomics & Development, Cold Spring Harbor Lab May 7-10, 2006

2005, Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Animal Genome Analysis, Tokyo, Japan, November 9, 2005

2002, Invited Speaker, Workshop on Experimental Models from the Bursa of Fabricius, Fred   Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, October 4-6, 2002

2002, Panel Member, Evolutionary Immunobiology:  New Approaches, New Paradigms Workshop, NSF-DCMB, South Carolina Aquarium, February 23-25, 2002

1994, Invited Speaker, Workshop on Immunology and Developmental Biology of the Chicken, Basel Institute of Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, December 8-10, 1994

1994, Panel Member, Research on Defense Mechanisms in a Diversity of Organisms: Assessment of Progress and Setting Goals, NSF, DCMB, Arlington, VA., March 14-15,1994

1992 - present, Editorial Board, Immunogenetics

1979 - present, Member, City of Hope Cancer Center