Graham Walker
American Cancer Society Research Professor; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
areas of expertise: dna repair, dna damage tolerance and mutagenesis, biological responses to dna damage, biochemistry and molecular biology of translesion dna polymerases, symbiosis, molecular genetics of nodulation of alfalfa by sinorhizobium meliloti, synthesis and functions of exopolysaccharides, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, biology
Graham Walker’s research is concentrated in two major areas: The first is the regulation and mechanism of action of proteins involved in DNA repair and mutagenesis and in controlling cellular responses to DNA damage; the second deals with identifying the bacterial functions required for the development of nitrogen-fixing nodules on legumes and with the relationship between rhizobial functions required for nodule invasion and mammalian pathogenesis.
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