Jeffrey Knight, Ph.D., Chair of Biological Sciences

Professor of Biological Sciences

Education

  • B.A., Oberlin College, 1970
  • M.S., The Ohio State University, 1975
  • Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1977

Postdoctoral Training

  • Department of Genetics, The Ohio State University, 1977-1978

Research Interests

  1. Mitochondrial ribosomal biogenesis in yeast
  2. Fine-structure analysis of mitochondrial genes in yeast
  3. Genetically engineered ribozyme expression in yeast

Courses

  • Biology 210  Genetics and Molecular Biology  (fall)
  • Biology 303  Microbial Genetics  (spring)
  • Biology 327  Microbiology  (fall)

Selected Publications

Knight, J.A., ed. Encyclopedia of Genetics (two volumes), Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc., 1999.

Knight, J.A., Wedeen, C.J., and Hughes, K.A. 1984. Nuclear suppressors of mitochondrial chloramphenicol resistance in Baker's yeast: their use for the isolation of novel mutants. Current Genet. 8:121-126.

Knight, J.A., Courey, A.J., and Stebbins, B. 1982. Second-site antibiotic resistance mutations in the ribosomal region of yeast mitochondrial DNA. Current Genet. 5:21-27.