Background
Riley, Monica was born on October 4, 1926 in New Orleans. Daughter of Chauncey Wesley and Maude (Kemper) Riley.
Riley, Monica was born on October 4, 1926 in New Orleans. Daughter of Chauncey Wesley and Maude (Kemper) Riley.
After graduating Smith College with a chemistry degree in 1947, she studied Biochemistry at University of California Berkeley with Pardee.
Assistant professor University of California, Davis, 1960-1966. Associate professor State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1966-1975, professor and provost, 1975-1978, professor biochemistry, 1975-1989, acting chairman, 1984-1985, emeritus professor, 1989. Senior scientist Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, 1989.
Visiting professor U. Paris-Sud-Orsay, 1991.
Member program committee for meeting Engineered Organisms in the Environment, 1985. Member review panel National Science Foundation.
Organizer Conference on Organisation Bacterial Chromosome, 1988. Chair Gordon Research Conference on Population Biology of Microorganisms, 1989.
Member Recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid Advisory Committee National Institutes of Health, 1988-1991.
Lecturer Foundation for Microbiology, 1987-1988. Company-organizer 1st International Conference on East coli Genome, 1992, coordinator 3d conference, 1993-1994.
Member American Society Microbiology (Chairman of Commission genetic and molecular microbiology of public and science affairs board 1984-1990, Chairman.com. genomics 1991-1994), Genetics Society American, American Society Biological Chemists, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Children: Adam, Christine (deceased), Katherine.