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User:David Wilson
David B. Wilson obtained his BA in Biochemical Sciences at Harvard University in 1961 and his PhD at Stanford Medical School in the Department of Biochemistry with Dr David Hogness in 1996, He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medical School working with Dr Howard Dintzis from 1966 to 19967. He joined the Cornell University Section of Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor in 1967, became an Associate professor in 1973 and a full professor in 1984. He started studying the cellulases produced by the bacterium, Thermobifidia fusca in 1980. He purified and characterized six T. fusca cellulases: Cel5A an endocellulase, Cel6A an endocellulase, Cel6B an exocellulase, Cel9A a novel processive endocellulase, Cel 9B an unusual endocellulase and Cel48A an exocellulase. He collaborated with the DOE JOint Genome institute which determined the sequence of the T. fusca genome.