Donald L. Court
Senior Investigator
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Court received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, Department of Biology. He was a research associate at Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley in the laboratories of Drs. Alan Campbell and Harrison Echols, respectively, before joining the NIH and the National Cancer Institute in 1972. In 1988, Dr. Court joined the Frederick ABL-Basic Research Program as Chief of the Molecular Control and Genetics Section, and in 1999, he joined the Center for Cancer Research of the National Cancer Institute.
Research Interest
bacterial and phage genetics, transcriptional regulation, post-transcriptional regulation, DNA recombination, ribosomal RNA transcription and maturation
Publications
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Tal A, Arbel-Goren R, Costantino N, Stavans J. Location of the unique integration site on an Escherichia coli chromosome by bacteriophage lambda DNA in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2014 May 20;111(20):7308-12.
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Li XT, Jun Y, Erickstad MJ, Brown SD, Parks A, Court DL, Jun S. tCRISPRi: tunable and reversible, one-step control of gene expression. Scientific reports. 2016;6.
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Thomason LC, Costantino N. Examining a DNA Replication Requirement for Bacteriophage λ Red-and Rac Prophage RecET-Promoted Recombination in Escherichia coli. mBio. 2016 Nov 2;7(5):e01443-16.
