个人简历

Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Harvard University (1975)
M.A. (Chemistry), Yale University (1968)
B.S. (Chemistry), Yale University (1968)
A.M. ( honorary), Amherst College (1994)
For many years I taught Molecular Genetics and Biochemisty, two courses mirroring my research interests. More recently I have taught the introductory course Molecules, Genes, and Cells, an advanced seminar on regulatory RNA molecules (DNA makes RNA), and the first year seminar Genes, Genomes, and Society.
Associate Faculty Member, Program in Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1984-present
Visiting Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, 1990-1991
Visiting Scientist, NIDDKD, NIH, 1995
Acting Dean of the Faculty, 1999-2000
Visiting Scientist, Columbia University Medical School, 2000-2001
Program Director, Amherst College HHMI Science Education Award, 2004-2009

近期论文

Shah-Mahoney, N., *Hampton, T. '94, *Vidaver, R. '92, and Ratner, D. (1997). Blocking the ends of transforming DNA enhances gene targeting in Dictyostelium. Gene 203:33-41.
Wang, Z., *Raifu, M. '97, *Howard, M. '96, Smith, L., Hansen, D., Goldsby, R., and Ratner, D. (2000). Universal PCR amplification of mouse immunoglobulin gene variable regions: the design of degenerate primers and an assessment of the effect of DNA polymerase 3' to 5' exonuclease activity. J. Immunological Methods 233:167-177.
*Nadin, B.M. '98, *Mah, C.S. '97, *Scharff, J. R. '96, and Ratner, D.I. (2000). The Regulative Capacity of Prespore Amoebae as Demonstrated by Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting and Green Fluorescent Protein. Developmental Biology 217: 173-178.
Bishop, J.D, Moon, B.C., Harrow, F., Ratner, D., Gomer, R.H., Dottin, R.P., and Brazill, D.T. (2002). A second UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is required for differentiation and development in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Biol.Chem. 277: 32430-32437.
Tekinay, T., Ennis, H.L., Wu, M.Y., Nelson, M., Kessin, R.H. and Ratner, D.I. (2003). Genetic Interactions of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Component FbxA with Cyclic AMP Metabolism and a Histidine Kinase Signaling Pathway During Dictyostelium discoideum Development. Eukaryotic Cell 2: 618-626.
*Pauyo, T. '05, *G.J. Hilinski '04, *P.T. Chiu '02, D.E. Hansen, Y.J. Choi, D.I. Ratner, N. Shah-Mahoney, C.A. Southern, and P.B. O'Hara, (2006). Genetic and fluorescence studies of affinity maturation in related antibodies. Mol. Immunol., 43: 812-821.
Tilahun, M.E., Rajagopalan, G., Shah-Mahoney, N., Lawlor, R. G.,Tilahun, A. Y., *Xie, C. ‘09, Natarajan, K., Margulies, D. H., Ratner, D.I., Osborne, B. A., and Goldsby, R. A., (2010). Potent neutralization of staphylococcal enterotoxin B by synergistic action of chimeric antibodies. Infect. Immun. 78: 2801-11.
*Surujon, D. and Ratner, D. I. (2016). Use of a Probabilistic Motif Search to Identify Histidine Phosphotransfer Domain-Containing Proteins. PLoS One 11(1): e0146577 .