BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME:

Gan Wang, Ph.D.

POSITION TITLE:

Assistant Professor

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DEGREE:

YEAR(s):

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Shandong University, China

B.Sc.

1983

Microbiology
Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, China

Ph.D.

1989

Molecular Genetics
University of Connecticut, CT

Postdoc.

1993

Molecular Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine, CT

Postdoc.

1996

Molecular Biology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1983-1984    Research Assistant; Shanghai Experimental Animal Research Center, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

1984-1989    Graduate Research Assistant; Dr. M.M. Hong, Supervisor; Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

1989-1993    Post-doctoral Fellow; Dr. Claire M. Berg, Supervisor; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269

1993-1996    Post-doctoral Fellow; Dr. Peter M. Glazer, Supervisor; Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Therapeutic Radiology, BCMM 339, New Haven, CT 06536

1996-present    Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, CSAB 330, Mobile, AL 36688-0002

PUBLICATIONS:

Wang G, TS Whittam, CM Berg, and DE Berg. RAPD (arbitrary primer) PCR is more sensitive than multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for distinguishing related bacterial strains. Nucleic Acids Res 1993;21:5930-5933.

Wang G, X Xu, J Chen, DE Berg, and CM Berg. Inversions and deletions generated by a mini-g d (Tn1000) transposon. J Bacteriol 1994;176:1332-1338.

Geary SJ, MH Forsyth, S Aboul Saoud, G Wang, DE Berg, and CM Berg. Mycoplasma gallisepticum strain differentiation by arbitrary primer PCR (RAPD) fingerprinting. Mol & Cellular Probes 1994;8:311-316.

Wang G, DD Levy, MM Seidman, and PM Glazer. Targeted Mutagenesis in Mammalian Cells Mediated by Intracellular Triple Helix Formation. Mol Cell Biol 1995;15:1759-1768.

Wang G, and PM Glazier. Altered Repair if Targeted Psoralen Photoadducts in the Context of an Oligonucleotide-Mediated Triple Helix. J Biol Chem 1995;270:22595-22601.

Glazer PM, G Wang, PA Havre, and EJ Gunther. Targeted Mutagenesis Mediated by Triple Helix Formation. Methods in Molecular Biology 1995;57:109-118.

Wang G, MM Seidman, and PM Glazer. Mutagenesis in Mammalian Cells Induced by Triple Helix Formation and Transcription-Coupled Repair. Science 1996;271:802-805.

Raha M, G Wang, and PM Glazer. Mutagenesis by Triple Helix-Directed Psoralen Adducts in Repair-Deficient Human Cell: High Frequency and Altered Mutation Spectrum in Xeroderma Pigmentosum Variant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1996;93:2941-2946.

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