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Board of Directors
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Director
Nancy Kerk, Ph. D.
email
Assistant
Director, Provost’s Office
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Yale University
PO Box 208103
New Haven CT 06520-8103
Phone 203 432-8060
FAX 203 432-6161
Education
• Mount Holyoke College, AB, (Magna cum Laude), Plant Cell
Biology and English, 1983
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Yale University, M.S., Ph.D.,
Plant Developmental Biology, 1990
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University
of California, Berkeley, 1991-1997
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Research Associate and Lecturer,
MCDB, Yale University, 1997-1999
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Monsanto Corporation, Senior
Project Scientist, 1999-2002
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Research Associate, MCDB,
Yale University, 2003-2004
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Assistant Director, Provost’s
Office, Administrative Director Yale Partnership in the Biological and
Chemical Sciences, Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, 2003-present
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Summer lecturer, Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratories, Plant/Arabidopsis Course, 1985-1994
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Co-Director, Genetically
Modified Plant Seminar Series and Symposia, Yale Institution for Social
and Policy Studies, 2003-2006
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Co-Lecturer and Organizer,
MCDB, 250a, Biology of Plants, 2004
Administrative Director, Yale Partnership in the Biological
and Chemical Sciences, and Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, Assistant
Director in the Office of the Provost; Associate Research Scientist, Molecular
Cellular and Developmental Biology.
Dr. Nancy Kerk is currently Associate Research Scientist in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology where she holds posts as Administrative Director, Yale Partnership in the Biological and Chemical Sciences, and Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics. Prior to this she was Senior Project Scientist at Monsanto Corporation. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Biology and English, and obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University in Plant Molecular Biology. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Research Associate in Yale’s Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Department.
Her research has focused on the developmental biology of plant root systems
with specific reference to cellular and molecular events underlying root
initiation and meristem organization. She has also worked in research
areas of embryo development, drought tolerance and yield improvement in
crop plants. She pioneered the technology of laser capture microdissection
in plants.
Her administrative responsibilities include maintaining oversight of the
two programs listed above that involve interdepartmental collaborations
with corporations and running of a large research Center on the Yale campus.
Her teaching responsibilities include co-organizing and lecturing in plant
developmental biology courses at Yale and she has been a frequent lecturer
in the plant molecular biology summer course at the Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory. She is co-organizer of the Genetically Modified Plant Seminar
Series and Symposia, Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
e-mail: nancy.kerk@yale.edu
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