Program
Direction
1.
Program Director
Dr. James Keck Jim Keck is an Associate Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry and has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin since 2001. Dr. Keck has had six graduate students in his lab and has served on over 60 PhD thesis committees from a variety of programs. Dr. Keck’s research includes mechanistic and structural studies of several key molecular machines that drive DNA replication, recombination, and repair. The Keck lab is supported by grants from the NIH, the American Cancer Society, the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Dr. Keck obtained his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts, where he studied bacterial chemotaxis in his undergraduate research. Dr. Keck’s PhD work at the University of California-Berkeley, examined the stability and enzymatic mechanisms of the RNase H family of enzymes. In his postdoctoral research at Harvard and Berkeley, Dr. Keck use structural methods to study several enzymes involved in bacterial genome maintenance.
2. Program Steering Committee
The program director is aided in planning and administering the Molecular Biosciences Training Grant by the MBTG Steering Committee. The membership was chosen to ensure broad representation from campus and includes:
Sam Butcher- Associate Professor, Biochemistry (IpiB)
Richard Gourse - Professor, Bacteriology
Christina Hull - Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry
Amanda Johnson - Trainee, CMB
Jim Keck - Associate Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry (IpiB)
Robert Landick - Professor, Bacteriology
Greg Richards - Trainee, MDTP
Shigeki Miyamoto - Professor, Pharmacology (CMB Coordinating Committee representative)
Kim Voss - Program Administration
The Steering Committee makes decisions on applicants for traineeships, appointment of faculty trainers, and overall budget items. In addition, specific program functions are administered by designated members of the committee.
