John T. Lis
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John T. Lis (born in Willimantic, Connecticut) is the Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[1] Dr. Lis was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for his research on protein templating in the propagation of gene activity.[2]
- Harvey Lecture, 2018[3]
Dr. Lis has been a faculty member at Cornell University since 1978 obtaining full professorship in 1991. His research program has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, including a MERIT Award, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, Cornell Biotechnology Institute, and a Procter & Gamble University Exploratory Research Grant.[4]
Dr. Lis is the director of the Lis Lab which investigates molecular mechanisms of gene regulation in eukaryotes using as a primary model the robustly and rapidly activated heat shock genes.[5]