Associate Professor

Class of 1964 Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Biology

Research Interests:

Cell and developmental biology, the interplay between cell cycle and cellular differentiation pathways, molecular mechanisms of cell polarization.

US News and World Report - NSF article

Article in BBC Earth

-BA (Biology) Pomona College 1983

-PhD (Biology) Johns Hopkins University, 1988

C. elegans spermatogenesis (Advisor: S. Ward)

-Postdoc, Cornell University (1988-91)

Embryonic Polarity (Advisor: K. Kemphues)

-Assistant Professor, Univ. of Houston (1991-95)

-At the College of William and Mary, since 1995

Contact Information:

Diane C. Shakes

ISC1 3041, Dept of Biology

College of William and Mary

PO Box 8795

Williamsburg, VA 23187

Phone 757 221-2409

e-mail: dcshak@wm.edu

Teaching:

Molecular Cell Biology

Advanced Cell Biology (seminar course)

Disease, Biomedicine, and Biomedical Research (non-majors biology)