NAME POSITION TITLE BIRTHDATE Garrard, William T. Professor 09/16/42
EDUCATION: University of Washington, Seattle B.S. 1966 Microbiology University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. 1971 Microbiology
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: 1971-1974 Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (James Bonner, Mentor) 1974-1978 & Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Biochemistry, The University Texas 1984 Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 1996- Professor of Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The American Society for Cell Biology Sigma Xi
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: Apoptosis Chromosome Structure Control of Gene Expression Molecular Immunology DNA Methylation Developmental Molecular Biology Chromosome Replication Chromosome Condensation and Segregation at Mitosis Organization of DNA Sequences Recombinant DNA and Immunological Techniques Yeast Molecular Genetics Functional Genomics
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Symposium organizer, American Association for Cancer Research (1992) Chairman, Gordon Conference on "Nuclear Proteins, Chromatin Structure, and Gene Regulation" (1988) GSA International Travel Award (1988) ASBC International Travel Award (1985) Basil O’Connor Fellow of the National Foundation - March of Dimes, 9/75 to 8/77 ASBC International Travel Award (1976) NSF International Travel Award (1975) Roche Research International Travel Fellowship (1974) Fellow of the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, 1/72 to 1/74 USPHS predoctoral fellow, 8/68 to 7/71 NSF undergraduate fellow, summer 1965, 1966
EDITORIAL BOARDS: Molecular and Cellular Biology 1/95-12/06 Nucleic Acids Research, 1/86 to 12/91
BOOKS EDITED: ?Structure-Function Relationships in Chromatin.? Methods: A Companion to Methods in Enzymology. Vol. 17, 1999.
CONSULTANT DUTIES: NIH Small Business Innovation Research Program (Panel Member, 2001-present) U.S. Army Ovarian Cancer Program (Panel Member and Vice-Chair 2000) External Review Committee of the Life Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chairman, 1995-2000) NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute RFA/PGA Panel Member (2000, 2001) U.S. Army Breast Cancer Program (Panel Member 1995, 1997, 1998) Product Development Consultant, Genta Incorporated, San Diego, CA (1995) Product Development Consultant, Pfizer, Croton, CT (1992) External Advisory Committee of the Life Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chairman, 1989-1994) ACS/Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis Panel (1988-1992), (Chairman, 1991-1992) NSF/Cell Biology Program Panel (Member, 1984-1987) NIH/Biomedical Science Fellowship Study Section (Member, 1981- 1983) M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute - Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship Committee (Member, 1981-1983) Product Development Consultant, Bio. Rad Laboratories, Richmond, California (1980 to 1992) NIH Molecular Cytology Study Section (Ad Hoc reviewer and site visitor) NSF/Molecular Genetics Panel (Ad Hoc member) NIH/Genetics Study Section (site visitor) NIH/Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Study Section (site visitor) NIH/NHLBI (site visitor) NIH/NIEHS (site visitor) NIH/NCI Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology (internal review site visitor) NIH/NIDDKD (site visitor) NIH/NCI (program project cluster reviewer)