Roy Curtiss III is a professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at the

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. He was elected to the

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in 2001.

Education

Curtiss earned his B.S. degree from

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in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the

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in 1962. At Cornell, he was a member of the

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society.

Career

Curtiss was Charles H. McCauley Professor of Microbiology,

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(1978–1983), Professor (1983–2005) and Chairman (1983–1993) of Department of Biology,

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, and Professor of Genomics, Evolution, & Bioinformatics at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

(2005–2015). He was the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology within The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. He has published more than 250 articles in scholarly journals (including a proposal for uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids, co-authored with Royston C. Clowes, Stanley Cohen, Naomi Datta, Stanley Falkow and Richard P. Novick)Richard P. Novick et al., "Uniform Nomenclature for Bacterial Plasmids: A Proposal", Bacteriol. Rev., March 1976, pp. 168-189 and has secured multiple patents.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Curtiss, Roy American microbiologists Arizona State University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Cornell University alumni University of Chicago alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology Washington University in St. Louis faculty University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty University of Florida faculty