Biography
Daniel E. Morse
Chairman
Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1967
University of California, Santa Barbera
Department: Biomolecular Science & Engineering
Address: Santa Barbara CA 93106
Email: d_morse@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Homepage:
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/mcdb/faculty/morse/index.html
Phone: 805-893-3157
Fax: 805-893-8062
Research Interests:
Biomolecular and Biomimetic Materials; Silicon and Semiconductor Biotechnology; Elucidation and adaptation of molecular mechanisms underlying the biological nanofabrication of high-performance and self-healing materials; biomimetic adaptation of these mechanisms to develop new routes to high-performance and self-healing materials for aerospace and other practical applications.
Education:
| 1963 | B.A., Biochemical Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 1967 | Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY |
Positions:
| 2000- | Chairman, Interdisciplinary Grad. Program in Biomolecular Science & Engineering |
| 1986- | Director, Marine Biotechnology Center, UC Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1993-94 | Chairman, Division of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1981-82, 1983-85, 1990-91 | Chairman, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1974- | Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1971-73 | Silas Arnold Houghton Assoc. Prof., Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 1969-71 | Assist. Prof., Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
Selected Honors:
- CNRS Visiting Professor, Univ. of Paris (1998); JSPS Visiting Professor, Univ. of Tokyo & Japan Center Marine Biotechnology (1995); Burroughs-Wellcome Visiting Professor, St. Andrews Univ. (1985)
- Fellow, AAAS (1986)
- Smithsonian Institution Regents Fellow (1985)
- Faculty Research Award, Amer. Cancer Soc. (1973)
- NIH Career Development Award (197l)
