EMBO Associate Member
Donald R. Helinski
EMBO 1999
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Structural characterization of bacterial plasmids
Retired from research in 2006. Currently Emeritus Professor. Past work included isolation and structural characterization of bacterial plasmids, construction of plasmids for gene cloning in bacteria, isolation and expression of firefly luciferase in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Keywords
Bacterial plasmids / DNA replication / replication initiation proteins / antibiotic resistance / fluorescent microscopy / plasmid genomics