Dr.
Donald Lee Court
National Cancer Institute
Molecular geneticist; Research institution scientist
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Elected
2014
Court has developed recombineering as a way to engineer DNA in living cells and defined its mechanism. He has discovered several gene regulatory mechanisms that describe the systems biology of phage lambda and E. coli. He has defined structures and action mechanisms that describe the bacterial Drosha/Dicer homolog RNaseIII. More recently he has discovered the bacterial Era protein, which is an ubiquitous cell-cycle check-point regulator that coordinates cell growth with cell division.
Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiolgy (1996). National Institutes of Health Award of Merit (1984 & 2012).
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