Ford Doolittle

W. Ford Doolittle (born November 30, 1941 in Urbana , Illinois ) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus of biochemistry and evolutionary biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax . He received his degree in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1963 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1967 .

As a member of the Faculty of Biochemistry, Doolittle has made great strides in the study of cyanobacteria , evidence of the endosymbiotic theory, developed a theory of the evolution of eukaryotes , and is also active in the field of horizontal gene transfer .

Doolittle has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1985, a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1991 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002 . For 2013 he was awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering . In addition to his research, Doolittle is an artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design .

Publications (selection)

• Phage-host relationships in certain strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae . In: Virology . Vol. 29, p. 410.
• The origin and early evolution of life . In: J. Cracraft, RW Bybee (Ed.): Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation . BSCS, Colorado Springs 2005, p. 35.
• The root of the tree: lateral gene transfer and the nature of the domains . In: RA Garrett, H.-P. Klenk (Ed.): Archaea: Evolution, Physiology and Molecular Biology . Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Malden 2007, ISBN 978-1-4051-4404-9 , p. 29.
• Lateral gene transfer . In: M. Pagel, A. Pomiankowski (Eds.): Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics . Sinauer 2007, ISBN 978-0-87893-654-0 , p. 45.

Web links

• Doolittle's homepage at Dalhousie University
• WFDoolittle at Google Scholar
• Doolittles article on Darwin's theory of evolution

Individual evidence

1. ^ Science.ca: W. Ford Doolittle. In: science.ca. November 30, 1941, accessed September 5, 2015 .