Robert Schleif
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Biography
Robert Schleif, Professor of Biology and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, received graduate training in Physics and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and post doctoral training at Harvard University with Drs. Gilbert and Watson. After 18 years in the Biochemistry Department at Brandeis University, he moved to Johns Hopkins. Current interests are directed towards obtaining a sufficiently deep and detailed understanding of the principles by which AraC functions, that new regulatory proteins utilizing the same principles could be designed and built.