Virology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Henry L Hillman Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology
• Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

EDUCATION:
• 1967 BS Bacteriology, South Dakota State University
• 1971 PhD Microbiology, Medical College of Virginia
• 1971-73 Postdoc, Lambda replication, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ
• 1973-77 Staff Fellow, Lambda recombination, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

EDITORSHIPS, MEMBERSHIPS:
Dr Enquist is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Virology, a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a member of the AAAS board of directors, and has served as a member and chair of several NIH grant review panels. He served as President of the American Society for Virology.

AWARDS, HONORS:
• 1967 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• 1984 Distinguished Alumnus, South Dakota State University
• 1984 Distinguished Alumnus, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 1994 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
• 1997 Subak Sharpe Lecturer, 22nd International Herpesvirus Meeting
• 1998 AAAS Fellow
• 2000 Co-chair Virus and Cells Gordon Conference
• 2003 Chair, Viruses and Cells Gordon Conference
• 2003 8th Richard J Klein Memorial Lecturer, New York University
• 2004 President, American Society for Virology
• 2005 Javitz Investigator Award
• 2005 AAAS Board of Directors
• 2005 Member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
• 2005 Frank N Nelson distinguished Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology & Medicine, Montana State University
• 2010 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Enquist's 30 year career experience has spanned research work in government laboratories at the NIH, heading research at Molecular Genetics Inc (one of the first biotechnology companies), designing novel applications of viruses for DuPont corporate research, managing an antiviral drug discovery team for DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals to his current position as Henry L Hillman Professor and Chair of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. His work on bacterial viruses played an important role in the development of recombinant DNA technology and his work on in vitro packaging systems has seen worldwide use by many investigators for cloning DNA from complex genomes into simple bacterial viruses. He was involved peripherally with the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee on the use of recombinant DNA by participating in the certification of the first E. coli vector systems. He and his colleagues were involved in the first successful cloning of mammalian genes and viruses including those from herpes simplex virus type 1 as well as integrated murine RNA tumor virus genomes. His current work is devoted to understanding how viruses invade and cause disease in the nervous system as well as developing viruses as tools to study the vertebrate nervous system.