Tracy L Ware
Professional Details
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office: | MH-538A |
| Phone: | 978-542-6806 |
| Email: | tracy.ware@salemstate.edu |
Professional Biography
EDUCATION & TRAINING
B.A. (1992) Chemistry, San Jose State University
M.S. (1995) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UCSF
Ph.D. (1999) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California San Francisco.
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Role of Template and Non-Template Bases in the Telomerase RNA of Tetrahymena thermophila
In the Laboratory of: Elizabeth Blackburn, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/
EXPERIENCE
Visiting Scientist (summer 2006 & 2007), Laboratory of Clotilde Carlow, New England Biolabs, Parasitology Division, Ipswich, MA.
Visiting Scientist (summer 2005), Laboratory of Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School (MGH)
Member (2008), Life Sciences Talent Initiative, Academic Task Force, commissioned by Governor Patrick for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Fellow (1999-2002), University of Sheffield, UK, Dept MBB
Volunteer Scientist Partner (1994-96), San Francisco Science Education Partnership (SEP).
President (1993-95), Graduate Students Association, UCSF.
Professional Interests
- Establishing Industry-Academic Partnerships for Biotech/Pharma Co-op Opportunities
(Interested MA businesses are encouraged to contact me by email)
- Massachusetts Biotechnology Council http://www.massbio.org/ http://www.massbioed.org/
- Caenorhabditis elegans Trans-Splicing http://elegans.swmed.edu/
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology http://www.asbmb.org/
- American Chemical Society http://www.acs.org/
- Association of Women in Science http://awis.org/
- Mentor Net http://www.mentornet.net/
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, www.pplm.org
- Engender Health (International), http://www.3for1.org/
Responsibilities
Member, SSC Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) Concentration Committee
Member, SSC Affirmative Action Committee
Member, SSC Civic Engagement Committee
Member, SSC NEASC Standard One Committee
Selected Publications
1. White SJ, Cooper GJ, Hajihashemi S. Developmental expression of the zebrafish Kcnj1 (Kir1.1 / ROMK), (International Society of Nephrology & Nature Genetics Symposium, Danvers, MA, 2007).
2. Ware TL, Wang H, Blackburn EH. Three telomerases with completely non-telomeric template replacements are catalytically active. EMBO J, 19: 3119-3131 (2000). http://www.nature.com/emboj/journal/v19/n12/full/7593133a.html
3. Blackburn E., Gilley D, Ware T, Bhattacharyya A, Kirk K, and Wang H. Studying the Telomerase RNA in Tetrahymena. In "Methods in Cell Biology: Tetrahymena thermophila". Editors, D. Asai and J. Forney. Academic Press, Vol. 62: 417-432 (1999). http://books.google.com/books?id=WqR7mHntRpcC&pg=PA417&vq=telomerase+RNA&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0
4. Blackburn E, Bhattacharyya A, Gilley D, Kirk K, Krauskopf A, McEachern M, Prescott J, Ware T. Telomeres and Telomerase: how do they interact? In "Telomeres: Ciba Foundation Symposium". John Wiley and Sons Ltd, West Sussex, Vol 211: 2-19 (1997).
Selected Presentations
Life after MIT: Academic Teaching Careers, January 2005, 2006, and 2007, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Personal Interests
International Volunteer Work & Field Research
Worldwide Affordable Access to Reproductive Healthcare see http://www.3for1.org/ and http://www.unfpa.org
Local & Sustainable Agriculture www.nofa.org
Yoga, Cycling, French Wine, Travel