Helen Donis-Keller

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Helen R. Donis-Keller
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
InstitutionsOlin College of Engineering
Thesis Enzymatic RNA sequencing and fractionation methods  (1979)

Helen Donis-Keller is the Michael E. Moody Professor and Professor of Biology and Art at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts.

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Education and career

Donis-Keller has a B.Sc. and an H.B.Sc. from Lakehead University. She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University under the direction of Walter Gilbert in 1979. [1] After employment at the biotechnology companies Biogen and Collaborative Research, she joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine. [2] [3] In 2001, she earn an MFA in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University[ citation needed ] and she joined the faculty at the Olin College of Engineering. [1] In 2012, she was named the Michael. E. Moody Faculty Chair. [4]

Research

Donis-Keller's graduate research established a method to do RNA sequencing. [5] [6] [7] During her time at Collaborative Research, her research group created the first genetic map of the human genome. [8] Donis-Keller was unable to secure either NIH or venture funding for generating the RFLP map, but convinced Collaborative Research's management to fund the project. [9] [10] She continued to work on the genetic linkage map [11] and led research into understanding the genetic basis of cystic fibrosis, [12] thyroid cancer, [13] and breast cancer. [14] [15]

Selected publications

Awards

Art

In addition to teaching art at Olin, [2] Donis-Keller is herself an artist, and her art can be seen at Needham's 2021 Open Studios event [17] and other venues. [18] [19] [20] Her Ph.D. advisor, Walter Gilbert, has also begun to investigate the intersection between art and science though, in a 2015 interview, Donis-Keller did not recall his interest in art while she was a student in his lab. [21]

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  2. 1 2 "Faculty Profile for Helen Donis-Keller, Ph.D. | Olin College of Engineering". www.olin.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  3. ↑ "Committee Biographies". Assessing Genetic Risks: Implications for Health and Social Policy: Committee Biographies. National Academies Press (US). 1994.
  4. ↑ "Olin College Names Professor Helen Donis-Keller as Inaugural Holder of the Michael E. Moody Chair". PRWeb. December 20, 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  5. ↑ Donis-Keller, Helen; Maxam, Allan M.; Gilbert, Walter (1977). "Mapping adenines, guanines, and pyrimidines in RNA". Nucleic Acids Research. 4 (8): 2527–2538. doi:10.1093/nar/4.8.2527. ISSN   0305-1048. PMC   342589 . PMID   409999.
  6. ↑ Donis-Keller, Helen (1979). "Site specific enzymatic cleavage of RNA". Nucleic Acids Research. 7 (1): 179–192. doi:10.1093/nar/7.1.179. ISSN   0305-1048. PMC   328004 . PMID   386279.
  7. ↑ Donis-Keller, Helen (1980). "Phy M: an RNase activity specific for U and A residues useful in RNA sequence analysis". Nucleic Acids Research. 8 (14): 3133–3142. doi:10.1093/nar/8.14.3133. ISSN   0305-1048. PMC   324360 . PMID   6160466.
  8. ↑ Donis-Keller, Helen; Green, Phillip; Helms, Cynthia; Cartinhour, Samuel; Weiffenback, Barbara; Stephens, Karen; Keith, Tim P.; Bowden, Donald W. (October 23, 1987). "A Genetic Linkage Map of the Human Genome" (PDF). Cell. 51 (2): 319–337. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(87)90158-9. PMID   3664638. S2CID   7230640.
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  13. ↑ Donis-Keller, Helen; Dou, Shenshen; Chi, David; Carlson, Katrin M.; Toshima, Koji; Lairmore, Terry C.; Howe, James R.; Moley, Jeffrey F.; Goodfellow, Paul; Wells, Samuel A. (1993). "Mutations in the RET proto-oncogene are associated with MEN 2A and FMTC". Human Molecular Genetics. 2 (7): 851–856. doi:10.1093/hmg/2.7.851. ISSN   0964-6906. PMID   8103403.
  14. ↑ Radford, Diane M.; Fair, Keri L.; Phillips, Nancy J.; Ritter, Jon H.; Steinbrueck, Todd; Holt, Matthew S.; Donis-Keller, Helen (1995-08-01). "Allelotyping of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ of the Breast: Deletion of Loci on 8p, 13q, 16q, 17p and 17q". Cancer Research. 55 (15): 3399–3405. ISSN   0008-5472. PMID   7614479.
  15. ↑ Glass, Andrew G.; Donis-Keller, Helen; Mies, Carolyn; Russo, Jose; Zehnbauer, Barbara; Taube, Sheila; Aamodt, Roger (2001-07-01). "The Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource: Archival Tissue for the Investigation of Tumor Markers". Clinical Cancer Research. 7 (7): 1843–1849. ISSN   1078-0432. PMID   11448894.
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