Background
Wickner, William Tobey was born on March 13, 1946 in Wallkill, New York, United States.
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William Tobey Wickner
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Bachelor, Yale University, 1967; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1973.
Career
Bill Wickner, brother of prion biologist Reed Wickner and Cornell graduate Nancy Wickner Kogan, is a 1967 graduate of Yale University (chemistry) and a 1973 Doctor of Medicine graduate of Harvard Medical School. At Harvard, he worked with Eugene Kennedy. He conducted post-doctoral research with Arthur Kornberg at Stanford University, discovering the role of an Ribonucleic acid primer in the replication of deoxyribonucleic acid. He began his independent research career as a Mellon senior fellow at Stanford in 1974, where he initiated studies of asymmetric membrane assembly in bacteria and viral assembly.
Wickner then spent 17 years on the faculty of University of California, Los Angeles, during which time he earned honors including an American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an National Institutes of Health Merit Award.
In 1993, he moved to Dartmouth Medical School, where he became chair of the Biochemistry Department and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996. Wickner has trained many successful scientists including Barbara Conradt, Elliott Crooke, Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Daniel Klionsky, Roland Lill, Gail Mandel, Janet Shaw, Pamela Silver, Gunnar von Heijne and Lois Weisman.
Wickner"s Laboratory currently explores yeast vacuole fusion as a model for membrane fusion.
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Fellow American Society Microbiology. Member National Academy Science M C.
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Two children.
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United States
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1967
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1973