Control of Gene Expression

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University

EDUCATION:
Dr Matthew S Sachs received his AB in Biochemistry cum laude in 1979 from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, and his PhD in Biology in 1986 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University from 1986 to 1990. In 1990 he joined the faculty of the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology; in 2001, this institution merged with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Prior to moving to Texas A&M in 2007, he was a Professor at OHSU with a primary appointment in the Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems in the OGI School of Science and Engineering and a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine.

EDITORIAL/MEMBERSHIPS:
He was one of the principal investigators on the NSF-funded project that obtained the first genome sequence of a filamentous fungus (2003). He has served as Chair of the Fungal Policy Committee (2001-2003), Co-Chair of the Cellular and Molecular Mycology Gordon Conference (2002) and is on the Steering Committee for the Fungal Genome Initiative. He serves on journal editorial boards including Eukaryotic Cell, Fungal Genetics and Biology, and Genetics.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His research is focused on understanding the mechanisms controlling gene regulation and genome organization in eukaryotes, primarily through studies on fungal model organisms.