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Dr. Jose V. Lopez Jose V. Lopez began his biological science career with a BS in Biology at Georgia Tech. He then went on to concentrate in molecular biology for a MS degree under a National Academy of Science member, Dr. J. Herbert Taylor at Florida State University, studying changes in chromatin structure. |
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| Dr. Lopez's next step was a move to the nexus of American biomedical research at the National Institute of Health's main campus in Bethesda MD as a research associate. Here, the spark of enquiry become fully ignited for a doctoral degree with research to characterize jumping mitochondrial genomes (Numt) in the cat family at Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick Cancer and Research Development Center under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen J. O'Brien. Dr. Lopez applied this doctoral training in molecular evolution towards marine organisms in his subsequent postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Nancy Knowlton (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) and assistant scientist position at FAU-Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. The thread that now runs through current diverse research in the Lopez microbiology and genetics laboratory at the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach FL, ties together marine invertebrate-symbiosis, gene expression of interacting organisms and complex communities, molecular biology and microbiology, metagenomics and the molecular phylogeny of marine sponges. |
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