David Kuhn

David N. Kuhn Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Associate Chair ~Department of Biological Sciences~ Florida International University Miami, FL 33199

Awards Refereed Papers Patent Current Funding

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA BS 1967-71 Life Sciences

University of California, Davis Davis, CA PhD 1976-80 Biochemistry

EXPERIENCE

              Employment
                1969             Undergraduate Research Participant in the laboratory of Dr. John Cairns, Cold Spring Harbor
                                        Laboratory, Cold SpringHarbor, NY.
                1972             Staff Research Associate I in the laboratory of Dr. Terence Murphy, Dept. of Botany, University of
                                        California, Davis.
                1973             Teacher Assistant, Davis Joint Unified Day Care Center, Davis, CA.
            1974-1975         Research Associate in the laboratory of Dr. Bart Sefton, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.
            1975-1976         Staff Research Associate I in the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Rappaport, Plant Growth Laboratory,
                                        University of California, Davis.
            1976-1980         National Science Foundation Predoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Davis.
            1980-1983         Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Klaus Hahlbrock, Dept. of Plant Biochemistry, University of
                                        Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
            1983-1989         Assistant professor, Purdue University, Dept. of Biochemistry.
            1989-1992         Assistant professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida International University.
            1992-now          Associate professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida International University.
            1997-now          Graduate Program Director and Associate Chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences, FIU

AWARDS

Undergraduate Research Participant, Cold Spring Harbor 1969

National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship 1976-1980

Michael Swackhamer Award for Excellence in Research 1980

Teaching Incentive Program, University Board of Regents 1994

REFEREED PAPERS (Recent and/or relevant)

Layton, A.C. and Kuhn, D.N. Heterokaryon formation by protoplast fusion of drug-resistant mutants in Phytophthora megasperma f.sp.
glycinea. Exp. Mycol. 12:180-194, 1988.

Layton, A.C. and Kuhn, D.N. The virulence of interracial heterokaryons of Phytophthora megasperma f.sp. glycinea. Phytopathology
78:961-966, 1988.

Layton, A.C., and Kuhn, D.N. In Planta Formation of Heterokaryons of Phytophthora megasperma f.sp. glycinea. Phytopathology 80:602-606, 1990.

Gould, K.S., D.N. Kuhn, D.W. Lee, and S.F. Oberbauer, "Why leaves are sometimes red" Nature 378:241-242, 1995.

Ronning, C.M., R.J. Schnell, and D.N. Kuhn. Inheritance of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Markers in Theobroma cacao L. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 120:681-686. 1995.

Sinigalliano, C.D., D.N. Kuhn, and R.D. Jones. Amplification of the amoA Gene from Diverse Species of Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria and from an Indigenous Bacterial Population from Seawater. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61:2702-2706, 1995.

Turner, T.F., J.C. Trexler, D.N. Kuhn, and H.W. Robison. Life history variation and comparative phylogeography of darters from the North American central highlands. Evolution 50:2023-2036, 1996.

Duncan, G.T., M.L. Tracey, D.N. Kuhn, J. Garrison, and L.S. Baird. Detection of D1S80 (PMCT 118) Microvariant Polymorphisms by Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism (SSCP) Analysis. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Human Identification 1995 p.96-103.

CM Ronning, RJ Schnell and D.N. Kuhn, (1996) Detection of Avocado Sunblotch Viroid and Estimation of Infection Among Accessions in the National Germplasm Collection for Avocado. Proc. Fla. State Hort. Soc. 109:235-237.

RJ Schnell, D.N. Kuhn, CM Ronning and D Harkins (1997) Application of RT-PCR for Indexing Avocado Sunblotch Viroid. Plant Disease 81:1023-1026.

PATENT Patent Serial Number 07,058,054 Filing Date 6/4/87, "Synthetic Gene for Acyl Carrier Protein." Beremand, P.D., Ohlrogge, J.B., and Kuhn, D.N.
CURRENT FUNDING

National Institute of Health Minority Biomedical Research Support (NIH-MBRS), "Horizontal genetic transfer in Fusarium oxysporum: Reevaluating parasexuality in asexual pathogenic fungi" Feb. 1, 1996- Dec. 31, 1999 $269,662

National Institute of Health Minority Biomedical Research Support (NIH-MBRS), Supplemental Funding for "Horizontal genetic transfer in Fusarium oxysporum: Reevaluating parasexuality in asexual pathogenic fungi" Oct. 1, 1996 - Dec. 31, 1999 $43,000

National Park Service, Army Corps of Engineers, South Florida Water Management District, "Numerical Interpretation of Class III Narrative Nutrient Water Criteria for Everglades Wetlands" Jan. 1, 1996 - Dec. 31, 2000. Co-PI (one of eight primary PIs).

U.S. Department of Energy "In Situ Activity and Functional Diversity of Microbes Linking Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Marine Ecosystems: Tandem Application of in situ PCR and Biogeochemical Measurements" November 1, 1997- October 31, 2000. Co-PI with Dr. Ron Jones and Dr. Chris Sinigalliano, $216,360.

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