CHROMATIN AND GENE FUNCTION: A PRIMER

John Lucchesi obtained a PhD in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. Following two years of postdoctoral training in the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon, he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he rose to the rank of Cary C Boshamer Professor of Biology and Genetics. In 1979 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Genetics, Duke University; in 1983, he was named Senior Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Biology Department at Emory University as Asa G. Candler Professor of Biology and Chair. Dr Lucchesi has served on numerous National Institutes of Health panels including chairing the Genetics Study Section of the Division of Research Grants. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a former President of the Genetics Society of America and was named Vice-President of the XVII International Congress of Genetics. His research laboratory, continuously supported by funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, has focused on the regulation of transcription, the functional architecture of chromatin and the genetic regulation of development.