research overview Dr. Pace's research is focused on the development and use of molecular technology to explore the makeup of the natural microbial world. A second effort focuses on the biochemistry of the ribozyme ribonuclease P.
selected publications chapter Phylogenetic and Ecological Perspectives on Uncultured Crenarchaeota and Korarchaeota. 281-289. 2006 Hydrogen and primary productivity: Inference of biogeochemistry from phylogeny in a geothermal ecosystem 2005 Diversity of life at the geothermal subsurface-surface interface: The Yellowstone example 2004 The early branches in the tree of life. 76-85. 2004 Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere 2000 Probing RNA structure, function and history by comparative analysis 1999 Probing RNA structure, function and history by comparative analysis 1999 Structure and catalytic function of the bacterial ribonuclease P ribozyme 1998 Microorganisms and Speleothems 1997 Phylogenetic perspective on microbial life in hydrothermal ecosystems, past and present 1996 Reliable amplification of hyperthermophilic archaeal 16S rRNA genes by the polymerase chain reaction 1994 New perspective on the natural microbial world 1993 Analysis of single cells and oligotrophic picoplankton populations using 16S ribosomal RNA sequences 1989 Phylogenetic analysis of microorganisms and natural populations using ribosomal RNA sequences 1989 Phylogenetic analysis of microorganisms and natural populations using ribosomal RNA sequences 1989 Bacillus subtilis RNase P 1987 Processing of tRNA precursors by an RNA catalyst from Bacillus subtilis 1985 Protein-polynucleotide recognition and the RNA-processing nucleases in prokaryotes 1984 RNA processing in Bacillus subtilis 1984 The interaction of RNase M5 with a 5S ribosomal RNA precursor 1980 The development and the use of an in vitro system for RNA replication 1968 conference proceeding Diversity of life at the geothermal subsurface - Surface interface: The Yellowstone example - Geophysical monograph series. Geophysical Monograph. 343-354. 2000 journal article The small things can matter. PLoS Biology. 2018 Longitudinal and Source-to-Tap New Orleans, LA, USA Drinking Water Microbiology. Environmental Science and Technology (Washington). 4220-4229. 2017 Factors Influencing Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in Municipal Drinking Waters in the Ohio River Basin, USA. PLoS One. 2016 Microbial aerosol liberation from soiled textiles isolated during routine residuals handling in a modern health care setting. Microbiome. 2015 Esophageal Microbiome in Eosinophilic Esophagitis. PLoS One. 2015 Effect of monochloramine treatment on the microbial ecology of Legionella and associated bacterial populations in a hospital hot water system. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 198-205. 2015 High-Resolution Microbial Community Succession of Microbially Induced Concrete Corrosion in Working Sanitary Manholes. PLoS One. 2015 Molecular analysis of single room humidifier bacteriology. Water Research. 318-327. 2015 Specific Microbiome Changes in a Mouse Model of Parenteral Nutrition Associated Liver Injury and Intestinal Inflammation. PLoS One. 2014 Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide Associations with Regional Bacterial Diversity Patterns in Microbially Induced Concrete Corrosion. Environmental Science and Technology (Washington). 7357-7364. 2014 Molecular analysis of point-of-use drinking water microbiology (vol 49, pg 225, 2014). Water Research. 367-367. 2014 Molecular analysis of point-of-use municipal drinking water microbiology. Water Research. 225-235. 2014 Explicet: graphical user interface software for metadata-driven management, analysis and visualization of microbiome data. Bioinformatics. 3100-3101. 2013 Molecular Analysis of Bacterial and Circovirus Bioaerosols in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Aerosol Science and Technology. 755-766. 2013 Culture-Independent Analysis of Aerosol Microbiology in a Metropolitan Subway System. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 3485-3493. 2013 Tetracycline Resistance and Class 1 Integron Genes Associated with Indoor and Outdoor Aerosols. Environmental Science and Technology (Washington). 4046-4052. 2013 Carl R. Woese (1928-2012) RETROSPECTIVE. Science. 661-661. 2013 Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat. The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology. 50-60. 2013 Novel Device to Sample the Esophageal Microbiome-The Esophageal String Test. PLoS One. 2012 Altered Vaginal Microbiota Are Associated With Perinatal Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in African Women From Burkina Faso. JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 299-306. 2012 Phototrophic Phylotypes Dominate Mesothermal Microbial Mats Associated with Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Microbial Ecology: an international journal. 162-170. 2012 Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Phenotype, C. difficile and NOD2 Genotype Are Associated with Shifts in Human Ileum Associated Microbial Composition. PLoS One. 2012 Phylogeny and beyond: Scientific, historical, and conceptual significance of the first tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1011-1018. 2012 Solution structure of RNase P RNA. RNA. 1159-1171. 2011 Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications. Nature Biotechnology. 415-420. 2011 Disease Phenotype and Genotype Are Associated with Shifts in Intestinal-associated Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 179-184. 2011 The Human Nasal Microbiota and Staphylococcus aureus Carriage. PLoS One. 2010 Molecular Source Tracking of Bioaerosols in the Quarantined Katrina Flood Zone. Aerosol Science and Technology. 230-239. 2010 Mapping the Tree of Life: Progress and Prospects. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 565-576. 2009 Culture-Independent Microbiological Analysis of Foley Urinary Catheter Biofilms. PLoS One. 2009 Microbial Species Richness and Metabolic Activities in Hypersaline Microbial Mats: Insight into Biosignature Formation Through Lithification. Astrobiology. 861-874. 2009 Microbial diversity in modern marine stromatolites, Highborne Cay, Bahamas. Environmental Microbiology. 2710-2719. 2009 Opportunistic pathogens enriched in showerhead biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 16393-16398. 2009 Diversity and Stratification of Archaea in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 1801-1810. 2009 Problems with "Procaryote". Journal of Bacteriology. 2008-2010. 2009 Rebuttal: the Modern Concept of the Procaryote. Journal of Bacteriology. 2006-2007. 2009 Microbial diversity in chronic open wounds. Wound Repair and Regeneration. 163-172. 2009 Mapping metal-binding sites in the catalytic domain of bacterial RNase P RNA. RNA. 266-276. 2009 Comparative molecular analysis of endoevaporitic microbial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 6444-6446. 2008 Metagenomic approaches for defining the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases. Cell Host and Microbe. 417-427. 2008 Eucaryotic diversity in a hypersaline microbial mat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 329-332. 2008 Gastrointestinal microbiology enters the metagenomics era. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology. 4-10. 2008 Millimeter‐scale genetic gradients and community‐level molecular convergence in a hypersaline microbial mat. Molecular Systems Biology. 2008 Molecular identification of bacteria in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from children with cystic fibrosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 20529-20533. 2007 Microbial community biofabrics in a geothermal mine adit. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 6172-6180. 2007 Molecular-phylogenetic characterization of microbial community imbalances in human inflammatory bowel diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 13780-13785. 2007 Phylogenetic composition of Rocky Mountain endolithic microbial ecosystems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 3497-3504. 2007 Endolithic microbial ecosystems. Annual Review of Microbiology. 331-347. 2007 Molecular identification of bacteria in the CF airway. Pediatric Pulmonology. 312-312. 2007 Relationships between Mycobactetium isolates from patients with pulmonary mycobacterial infection and potting soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 7602-7606. 2006 Structure and function of eukaryotic ribonuclease P RNA. Molecular Cell. 445-456. 2006 Bacterial RNase P: a new view of an ancient enzyme. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 729-740. 2006 Culture-independent analysis of indomethacin-induced alterations in the rat gastrointestinal microbiota. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 6707-6715. 2006 BIOT 360-Co-conservation analysis of bacterial genes across phyla reveals that this method can be reliably used to predict gene function. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2006 RNase P: interface of the RNA and protein worlds. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 333-341. 2006 Time for a change. Nature. 289-289. 2006 Unexpected diversity and complexity of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 3685-3695. 2006 Mapping the tree of life. The FASEB Journal. A36-A37. 2006 Community and cultivation analysis of arsenite oxidizing biofilms at Hot Creek. Environmental Microbiology. 50-59. 2006 Phylogenetic diversity and ecology of environmental Archaea. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 638-642. 2005 Another ribosomal RNA sequence milestone - and a call for better annotation. ASM news. 501-502. 2005 Structural perspective on the activation of RNase P RNA by protein. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. 958-964. 2005 Protein activation of a ribozyme: the role of bacterial RNase P protein. The EMBO Journal. 3360-3368. 2005 Conventional and molecular epidemiology of macrolide resistance among new Mycobacterium avium complex isolates recovered from HIV-infected patients. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 1041-1044. 2005 Use of specific rRNA oligonucleotide probes for microscopic detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in culture and tissue specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 5369-5371. 2005 Crystal structure of a bacterial ribonuclease P RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 13392-13397. 2005 Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 4822-4832. 2005 Structural implications of novel diversity in eucaryal RNase P RNA. RNA. 739-751. 2005 Don't dismiss astrobiology. Science. 496-496. 2005 Geobiology of a microbial endolithic community in the Yellowstone geothermal environment. Nature. 1011-1014. 2005 Discussion: Persistent coliform contamination in Lechuguilla Cave pools. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. 55-57. 2005 Microbial biodiversity in human chronic wounds. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. A44-A44. 2005 Use of specific rRNA oligonucleotide probes for microscopic detection of Mycobacterium avium complex organisms in tissue. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 1505-1514. 2005 Molecular identification of potential pathogens in water and air of a hospital therapy pool. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 4860-4865. 2005 Hot or salty to dark and acidic: Some lessons from geothermal, hypersailine and gave environments.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U889-U889. 2005 Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG bacteremia associated with probiotic use in a child with short gut syndrome. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 278-280. 2005 Hydrogen and bioenergetics in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2555-2560. 2005 Molecular analysis of shower curtain biofilm microbes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 4187-4192. 2004 Mapping caves... and life. BioTechniques: the journal of laboratory technology for bioresearch. 553-553. 2004 New perspective on uncultured bacterial phylogenetic division OP11. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 845-849. 2004 Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a bacterial community in an oligotrophic cave environment. Geomicrobiology Journal: an international journal of geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry. 11-20. 2004 Microbial diversity of cryptoendolithic communities from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 3858-3867. 2003 High-resolution structure of RNase P protein from Thermotoga maritima. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 7497-7502. 2003 Complexity in natural microbial ecosystems: The Guerrero Negro experience. Biological Bulletin. 168-173. 2003 The genetic core of the universal ancestor. Genome Research. 407-412. 2003 Culture-independent molecular analysis of microbial constituents of the healthy human outer ear. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 295-303. 2003 Microbial composition of near-boiling silica-depositing thermal springs throughout Yellowstone National Park. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 5123-5135. 2002 Polyphosphate Kinase from Activated Sludge Performing Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 4971-4978. 2002 Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary diffraction analysis of RNase P protein from Thermotoga maritima. Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology. 1234-1236. 2002 Novel kingdom-level eukaryotic diversity in anoxic environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 8324-8329. 2002 Phylogenetic analysis of the structure of RNase MRP RNA in yeasts. RNA. 740-751. 2002 Evaluation and refinement of tmRNA structure using gene sequences from natural microbial communities. RNA. 1310-1316. 2001 Identification and Characterization of Bacteria in a Selenium-Contaminated Hypersaline Evaporation Pond. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 3785-3794. 2001 Environmental diversity of Bacteria and Archaea. Systematic Biology. 470-478. 2001 Microbial life in the underworld: Biogenicity in secondary mineral formations. Geomicrobiology Journal: an international journal of geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry. 359-368. 2001 Isolation and characterization of a black-pigmented Corynebacterium sp from a woman with spontaneous abortion. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 1109-1113. 2001 The universal nature of biochemistry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 805-808. 2001 Molecular-phylogenetic analyses of human gastrointestinal microbiota. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology. 52-57. 2001 Phylogenetic-comparative analysis of the eukaryal ribonuclease P RNA. RNA. 1895-1904. 2000 Expanding the known diversity and environmental distribution of an uncultured phylogenetic division of bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 1617-1621. 2000 Community interactions: towards a natural history of the microbial world. Environmental Microbiology. 7-8. 2000 Photoaffinity cross-linking and RNA structure analysis. Methods in Enzymology. 136-147. 2000 Geomicrobiology of Pyrite (FeS2) Dissolution: Case Study at Iron Mountain, California. Geomicrobiology Journal: an international journal of geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry. 155-179. 1999 The Ribonuclease P Database. Nucleic Acids Research. 314-314. 1999 Comparative structure analysis of vertebrate ribonuclease P RNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 3333-3339. 1998 RIBONUCLEASE P: Unity and Diversity in a tRNA Processing Ribozyme. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 153-180. 1998 Participation of the 3‘-CCA of tRNA in the Binding of Catalytic Mg2+ Ions by Ribonuclease P. Biochemistry. 7277-7283. 1998 Comparative photocross-linking analysis of the tertiary structures of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis RNase P RNAs. The EMBO Journal. 1515-1525. 1998 In vitro; selection for altered divalent metal specificity in the RNase P RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 14355-14360. 1997 A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere. Science. 734-740. 1997 Structure and evolution of ribonuclease P RNA in Gram-positive bacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 4775-4782. 1996 Wide diversity of Crenarchaeota. Nature. 420-420. 1996 Perspectives on archaeal diversity, thermophily and monophyly from environmental rRNA sequences.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 9188-9193. 1996 Mineralization of 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (picric acid): Characterization and phylogenetic identification of microbial strains. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. 319-324. 1996 Comparative analysis of ribonuclease P RNA using gene sequences from natural microbial populations reveals tertiary structural elements.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 3001-3006. 1996 Analysis of the tertiary structure of bacterial RNase P RNA. Molecular Biology Reports: an international journal on molecular and cellular biology. 115-123. 1996 Thermotoga subterranea sp. nov., a new thermophilic bacterium isolated from a continental oil reservoir. Archives of Microbiology. 91-97. 1995 Rational Design of Self-Cleaving pre-tRNA-Ribonuclease P RNA Conjugates. Biochemistry. 10800-10808. 1994 Further perspective on the catalytic core and secondary structure of ribonuclease P RNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2527-2531. 1994 Remarkable archaeal diversity detected in aYellowstone National Park hot spring environment.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1609-1613. 1994 CIRCULARLY PERMUTED TRANSFER-RNAS AS SPECIFIC PHOTOAFFINITY PROBES OF RIBONUCLEASE-P RNA STRUCTURE. Science. 762-765. 1993 Multiple magnesium ions in the ribonuclease P reaction mechanism. Biochemistry. 5273-5281. 1993 The largest bacterium. Nature. 239-241. 1993 Characterization of ribonuclease P RNAs from thermophilic bacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 671-679. 1993 Isolation and characterization of Thiobacillus hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic obligately chemolithotrophic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in Fiji Basin. Archives of Microbiology. 39-44. 1993 The varieties of ribonuclease P. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 178-182. 1992 Contributions of phylogenetically variable structural elements to the function of the ribozyme ribonuclease P. Biochemistry. 328-333. 1992 Origin of life-facing up to the physical setting. Cell. 531-533. 1991 The excision of intervening sequences from salmonella 23S ribosomal RNA. Cell. 405-414. 1990 Nucleotide sequence of the 10Sa RNA gene of the βpurple eubacteriumAlcaligenes eutrophus. Nucleic Acids Research. 2820-2820. 1990 Phylogenetic comparative analysis and the secondary structure of ribonuclease P RNA — a review. Gene. 65-75. 1989 The Design and Catalytic Properties of a Simplified Ribonuclease P RNA. Science. 1569-1571. 1989 Phylogenetic Stains: Ribosomal RNA-Based Probes for the Identification of Single Cells. Science. 1360-1363. 1989 The relationship of a prochlorophyte Prochlorothrix hollandicato green chloroplasts. Nature. 380-382. 1989 A microbiological study of Guaymas Basin high temperature hydrothermal vents. Deep-sea research. Part A, Oceanographic research papers. 777-791. 1988 Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom. Science. 748-753. 1988 Role of the Protein Moiety of Ribonuclease P, a Ribonucleoprotein Enzyme. Science. 178-181. 1988 The secondary structure of ribonuclease P RNA, the catalytic element of a ribonucleoprotein enzyme. Cell. 19-26. 1988 Phylogenetic Analysis of Certain Sulfide-Oxidizing and Related Morphologically Conspicuous Bacteria by 5S Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Sequences. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 116-122. 1987 Microbial Ecology and Evolution: A Ribosomal RNA Approach. Annual Review of Microbiology. 337-365. 1986 THE OCCURRENCE OF CYCLIC-AMP IN ARCHAEBACTERIA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 1078-1082. 1986 Ribosomal RNA phylogeny and the primary lines of evolutionary descent. Cell. 325-326. 1986 Are arguments against archaebacteria valid?. Nature. 401-402. 1986 Catalysis by RNA. BioEssays. 56-61. 1986 Sequence of the 16S rRNA gene from the thermoacidophilic archaebacteriumSulfolobus solfataricus and its evolutionary implications. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 301-307. 1985 Rapid determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences for phylogenetic analyses.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 6955-6959. 1985 Ribonuclease P Catalysis Differs from Ribosomal RNA Self-Splicing. Science. 79-81. 1985 Rna catalysis and the origin of life. Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere. 97-116. 1985 Analysis of Hydrothermal Vent-Associated Symbionts by Ribosomal RNA Sequences. Science. 409-411. 1984 The RNA moiety of ribonuclease P is the catalytic subunit of the enzyme. Cell. 849-857. 1983 Enzymic and chemical structure mapping of mouse 28S ribosomal RNA-contacts in 5.8S ribosomal RNA. Biochemistry. 2320-2329. 1982 Independent binding sites in mouse 5.8S ribosomal RNA for 28S ribosomal RNA. Biochemistry. 2329-2335. 1982 An unusual 5S rRNA, from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, and its implications for a general 5S rRNA structure. Nucleic Acids Research. 6129-6138. 1981 Recognition of local nucleotide conformation in contrast to sequence by a rRNA processing endonuclease.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 5644-5648. 1980 The chromatography of RNA and oligoribonucleotides on boronate-substituted agarose and polyacrylamide. Analytical Biochemistry. 128-135. 1980 Precursor-specific nucleotide sequences can govern RNA folding. Cell. 1133-1143. 1979 The use of rifampicin to evaluate tRNA transcriptional organization in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 1269-1286. 1979 Involvement of the mature domain in the in vitro maturation of Bacillus subtilis precursor 5S ribosomal RNA. Biochemistry. 5804-5810. 1978 Use of T4 RNA ligase to construct model substrates for a ribosomal RNA maturation endonuclease.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 3045-3049. 1978 Involvement of precursor-specific segments in the in vitro maturation of Bacillus subtilis precursor 5S ribosomal RNA. Biochemistry. 5009-5015. 1977 Structure of the 5.8S RNA component of the 5.8S-28S ribosomal RNA junction complex. Biochemistry. 5321-5328. 1977 Transcriptional organization of the 5.8S ribosomal RNA ristron in Xenopus laevis ribosomal DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 595-601. 1977 The nucleotide sequence of dolphin and bovine 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid. FEBS Letters. 241-244. 1975 In vitro maturation of precursors of 5S ribosomal RNA from Bacillus subtilis. Nature. 598-600. 1974 The 7S RNA Common to Oncornaviruses and Normal Cells is Associated with Polyribosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 3390-3394. 1974 Nucleotide sequence of Bacillus megaterium 5 S RNA. FEBS Letters. 322-323. 1974 The nucleotide sequence of chicken 5S ribosomal RNA. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 151-159. 1974 The relationship between precursor and mature forms of the 23 S ribosomal RNA. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 167-174. 1973 Transcriptional Organization of the Ribosomal RNA Cistrons in; Escherichia Coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1786-1790. 1971 Primary Structural Relationship of p16 to m16 Ribosomal RNA. Nature. 48-49. 1971 Synthesis of 5S Ribosomal RNA in Escherichia coli after Rifampicin Treatment. Nature. 125-129. 1970 The Mechanism of RNA Replication. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 101-124. 1968 The immediate precursor of viral RNA in the Q-beta-repicase reaction.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 139-144. 1968 Studies in the replication of viral RNA. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 35-64. 1967 The mechanism of replication: a novel polarity reversal in the in vitro synthesis of Q-beta-RNA and its complement.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1790-1797. 1967 The kinetics of product appearance and template involvement in the in vitro replication of viral RNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 711-718. 1967 THE IN VITRO SYNTHESIS OF A NONINFECTIOUS COMPLEX CONTAINING BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE VIRAL RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1778-1785. 1966 In Vitro Synthesis of an Infectious Mutant RNA with a Normal RNA Replicase. Science. 64-67. 1966 The synthesis of infectious RNA with a replicase purified according to its size and density.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1608-1615. 1966
education and training Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1967 B.A., Indiana University Bloomington 1964
awards and honors Massry Prize, conferred by Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation, The, 2017 Distinguished Professorship, conferred by University of Colorado President, 2008 Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, conferred by American Society for Microbiology, 2007 Fellow, conferred by MacArthur Foundation, 2001 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology, conferred by National Academy of Sciences, 2001 DuPont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, conferred by American Society for Microbiology, 1996 Fellows, conferred by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991 NAS Members, conferred by National Academy of Sciences, 1991 AAAS Fellow, conferred by American Association for the Advancement of Science, The, 1988