Section: Biography

Job Dekker, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
   Program in Gene Function and Expression

Other Affiliation(s):
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
   Program in Bioinformatics & Integrative Biology

Academic Background

Job Dekker received his B.S. (1993) and his Ph.D. (1997) from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. From 1998 to 2003, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University during which time he was awarded an NWO-TALENT stipendium, an EMBO long-term fellowship and a fellowship from the Medical Foundation / Charles A. King Trust.  Dr. Dekker joined the University of Massachusetts Medical School as an Assistant Professor in the Program of Gene Function and Expression in the spring of 2003.  In 2007, he was named a W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research.

Office: LRB 519
Phone: 508-856-4371
E-mail: Job.Dekker@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Cell Biology, DNA Replication, Gene Expression

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