DAVID JOHN GALAS

 

 

PERSONAL:

 

            Born:                February 25, 1944, St. Petersburg, Florida.

 

            Citizenship:       USA.

 

ADDRESSES:

 

            Business:          Keck Graduate Institute

                                    535 Watson Drive

                                    Claremont, California 91711

                                    Phone: 909 607-7855

                                                                       

            Home:              854 Guanajuato Drive

                                    Claremont, California 91711

                                    Phone:  909 398-1330

 

EDUCATION:

 

1972            University of California, Davis-Livermore, Physics Ph.D.  

            Dissertation:  “Theory of Interaction of Impurities with Liquid Helium”

 

1968            University of California, Davis-Livermore, Physics M.S.   

           

1967            University of California, Berkeley,            Physics A.B. with honors

 

 

Other:

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

            Summer study in the Molecular Biology & Genetics of Yeast 1974

 

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

              Summer study in Advanced Molecular Genetics of Bacteria           1975

 

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

 

2002 – present             Chancellor, Chief Scientific Officer and Norris Professor of Applied Life

                                    Sciences

                                    Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

 

1998 – 2002                Chief Academic Officer, Dean of Faculty, Vice President, Norris Professor of                             Applied Life Sciences

                                    Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

 

2002 – present             Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California,

                                    San Diego

 

1998- 2000                 Chief Science Advisor

                                    Chiroscience R&D Inc. & Rapigene Inc.

 

1997- 1998                 President and Chief Scientific Officer, Director

                                    Chiroscience R&D Inc. (formerly Darwin Molecular Corporation)

 

1995-1997                  Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Director

                                    Darwin Molecular Corporation

 

1994-1995                  President, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer,

                                    Darwin Molecular Corporation

 

1993-1994                  Vice President for Research and Development, Founder & Director

                                    Darwin Molecular Corporation

 

1990-1993                  Director for Health and Environmental Research,

                                    Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy

                                    (on leave from University of Southern California)

 

1988-1993                  Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences,

                                    University of Southern California

 

1985-1990                  Director of Molecular Biology Section,

                                    University of             Southern California

 

1984-1988                  Associate Professor, Molecular Biology Section,

                                    Department of Biological Sciences,

                                    University of Southern California

 

1981-1984                  Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology Section,

                                    Department of Biological Sciences,

University of Southern California

 

1977-1981                  Charge’ de Recherches, Department of Molecular Biology,

                                    University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

 

1974-1977                  Senior Staff Scientist, Biomedical Division,

                                    University of California,

                                    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

 

1972-1974                  Scientific Advisor to Defense Science Board,

                                    Task Force on Strategic Vulnerability (Capt., USAF)

 

1967-1972                  Hertz Foundation predoctoral fellow

 

1966-1967                  Computational Technician/Programmer, Theoretical Physics Department, University of California,

                                    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 


BOARDS/COMMITTEES:

 

Board of Directors, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, 1999 - present

Board of Directors, Impath Inc., 1999 – 2002   (public corporation, NASDAQ)

Advisory Board, Boston University Bioinformatics Program, 1999 – present

Selection Committee for the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Investigators in Computational   

  Biology, 1999 – present

Editorial Board, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2002 -

Editorial Board, Functional & Integrative Genomics, 1999 – present

Editorial Board, Journal of Computational Biology, 1993 - present

Board of Directors, Rapigene Inc., 1998 – 1999   (spin out of Chiroscience plc)

Board of Directors, Chiroscience Group plc, 1997-1998 

   (public corporation, London Stock Exchange)

Board of Directors, Blue Heron Technologies Inc. Seattle WA, 1999-present

Scientific Advisory Board, Blue Heron Technologies, 2000-present

Scientific Advisory Council, CellTech Group, 1999 – present

Scientific Advisory Board, Impath Inc., 1999- present

Policy Board, DOE Joint Genome Institute, University of California, 2000 – present

Advisory Committee, DOE Joint Genome Institute, University of California, 1997 – 2000

Laboratory Advisory Committee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2001 - present

National Academy of Science, Board on Biology, 1995- present

National Academy of Science, Commission on Life Sciences, 1998- 2000

National Biotechnology Policy Board, 1990 - 1993

National Cancer Advisory Board, 1990 – 1993

Board of Governors, National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995 - present

Scientific Advisory Board, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City Utah, 1993 - present

Scientific Advisory Board, Valigen Corp., Paris, 2000- present

Scientific Advisory Board, Integra Ventures, 2001 - present

Vice Chairman, Committee on Life Sciences and Health, Federal Coordinating Committee for

   Science Education and Technology (OSTP), 1990 - 1993

Chair, Biotechnology Research Subcommittee, Committee on Life Sciences and Health,

   (OSTP), 1990 – 1993

Chair, Biology Division Advisory Committee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2000- present

Biological System Institute Advisory Committee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2001- present

Director’s Advisory Committee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2001- present

Committee on Earth and Environmental Science, Federal Coordinating Committee for Science Education and Technology, (OSTP), 1991 – 1993

Chairman of the Board, Ionian Technologies Inc., 2001- present

Chairman of the Board, Zuyder Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 2001 - present

National Research Council Panel on “The Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning,” 2001

National Research Council Steering Committee Member on “Defining the Mandate of Proteomics in the Post-Genomics Era,” 2002.

The National Academies, Biological Panel, Committee on “Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism”, 2002

Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience Member, The University of Queensland, Australia, 2003.

 

 


SOCIETIES, HONORS:

 

A.B. with Honors in General Scholarship, UC Berkeley

Rhodes Scholarship finalist, 1966

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation predoctoral fellowship, 1967-1972

NSF predoctoral fellowship, AEC predoctoral fellowship, 1967

Friedrich-Miescher Award in Biochemistry, nominee for DNA "footprinting,” 

    Swiss Biochemical Society, 1981

Founder Darwin Molecular Corporation

Parker Lecture and Award, Batelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratories

Computerworld-Smithsonian Institution Pioneer Award (for role in Human Genome Project), 1999

American Physical Society

American Chemical Society

American Society of Human Genetics

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society of Microbiology

Human Genome Organization

Sigma Xi

Genetics Society of America

New York Academy of Science

 

 

SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:

 

My scientific interests are multiple and include the application of a variety of disciplines to solving biological and medical problems.  This includes mathematical and computational methods, as well as the use of physical methods and synthetic chemistry in the development of novel approaches to the analysis of biological systems at the molecular level.   These particular interests are evident in my role in founding and managing a new biotechnology company, Darwin Molecular Corporation (DMC), which has now become a part of Celltech plc through Chiroscience Group plc via a series of acquisitions.  DMC was founded in 1993 to take advantage of new developments in gene discovery and combinatorial chemistry to forge a gene-to-drug discovery capability within a small company.  These ambitions are still being realized, but the work-in-progress has included the discovery of the Werner’s Syndrome gene (the first human gene found to directly affect aging), and a gene for susceptibility to early onset Alzheimer’s disease, a novel human gene involved in the control of bone density, and the development of several novel technologies for rapid genotyping, gene expression profiling, and several other genomic analysis methods.    The later resulted in the founding of a new company in 1998, Rapigene Inc.  Most recently we have founded an enabling technology company, Ionian Technologies Inc., based on advances achieved in my laboratory at the Keck Graduate Institute.  The various technological advances in methods for the amplification and measurement of nucleic acids has the potential to contribute significantly to bringing the benefits of the life sciences to society.

 

Policy interests that I have pursued in my governmental work include the nature of the effects of technological developments on the advance of biological research and applications in public and private sectors, and the interactions of these sectors.  My involvement in the leadership of the Human Genome Program (the DOE component of the project was my responsibility from 1990 to 1993) has sharpened those interests and convinced me of the major role to be played by technology in the future of all the basic and applied life sciences.  Both anticipation of scientific advances and the formulation of effective policy for research are strongly affected by this connection.  My involvement in directing and coordinating the FY 1993, multi-agency, Presidential Initiative in Biotechnology Research (see the 1993 Presidential Report Entitled, "Biotechnology For the 21st Century" and the follow-on document for 1994) has given me a deeper appreciation of the fundamental nature of basic-applied-technology feedback loops that operate over a wide range of modern scientific research activities.  Other policy-related research interests include radiation effects, mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, and in particular the effects of specific genotypes on the biological manifestation of DNA damage, and other pathogenic processes.

 

A principal laboratory research interest of mine pursued over the past fifteen years or so, has been in understanding the mechanisms of transposition of transposable genetic elements, and the biological significance of their activities in living cells.  Another long-standing area of interest involves the study of DNA-protein interactions in a larger sense than those aspects that have been connected with the transposition work.

 

Recent interests have included nucleic acid analysis technologies for genetics and functional genomics, and the study of biological networks.

 


GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

 

My experience in government service as Director of Health and Environmental Research in the Department of Energy from 1990 to 1993 was in running the programs of research in biological and environmental science funded by the Department of Energy.   This research was carried out in the National laboratories and Universities across the country, and covered a wide range of areas in basic and applied science and technology, including most notably the component of the Human Genome Project of the Department of Energy.  The DOE component was approximately one half the size of the NIH program.  The government rank of my position was at the equivalent of a Deputy Assistant Secretary.  The research budget managed in 1993 was approximately $430M.    My objectives in this job were to maximize the effectiveness and scientific strength of the Human Genome Program, re-invigorate the DOE programs with research that takes full advantage of the many new molecular and computational technologies, and to integrate and realign existing programs with these goals.   I was substantially successful in setting these programs on the path to meeting these objectives (see paper on the five year plan for the Human Genome Project in Science, 1993).

 

In the private sector I was one of six founders of Darwin Molecular Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on an integrated technological approach to drug discovery that began with gene discovery and used combinatorial chemistry methods to developed drug leads against newly defined targets.  This plan for a small company was considered heretical at the time, but has since become commonplace in the industry.  I was the chief scientific officer from the company’s inception and have also held other positions as needed, including CEO, and most recently President of the US component of the larger merged company.  We were successful in discovering several significant new genes including the gene for Werner’s syndrome, the first human gene known to directly affect aging, and an Alzheimer’s disease susceptibility gene, PS2, a new human bone density gene, and several others that are now making contributions to the current company pipeline, and have a good chance of contributing to the effective treatment of osteoporosis.  The company merged in January 1997 with an UK company, Chiroscience plc, which was focused on chemistry, and pre-clinical and clinical drug development.  I remained the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the US part of the combined company until my resignation in 1998 to assume my present position at KGI.  With some new technology developed in Darwin Molecular at the foundation, we formed a new subsidiary, Rapigene, in March 1998 to develop and commercialize this genotyping and gene expression measurement technology.  Chiroscience plc was acquired by Celltech plc in 1999.

 

In September 1998 I relinquished all management responsibilities for Chiroscience and assumed a part time advisory role in order to assume the post of Chief Academic Officer of a new academic venture, the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences.  KGI was formed to develop an entirely new type of graduate training and research program focused primarily on training professionals in the applied life sciences.  Integrating a range of technical and management components, KGI will train leaders for the future of the biotechnology, health care and pharmaceutical industry, and carry out focused research on a variety of applied problems in the life sciences.  One designated area of focus will be on the applications of computational and theoretical methods to applied problems in the life sciences.  The institute is the newest chartered member of the Claremont College consortium and has the potential to contribute to significant change in training in the life sciences, particularly for applications.

 

 


PUBLICATIONS:

 

Galas, D. J.,  “Galilean Covariance of Gauge Fields and the Quantization of Circulation in He II,”  Lettre Al Nuovo Cimento 2:217 (1971).

 

Galas, D. J.,  “Theory of the Interaction of Impurities with Superfluid Helium,”  PhD Dissertation submitted to the University of California (1972).

 

Galas, D. J., Jensen, C. A. and Sahlin, H. L.,  “A Computable Expansion for Multiparticle Propagators,”  Journ. Mathematical Physics 14:524 (1973).

 

Galas, D. J.,  “The Superleak as a Gyroscope,”  Journ. of Applied Physics  44:2355 (1973).

 

Branscomb, E. W. and Galas, D. J.,  “Progressive Decrease in Protein Synthesis Accuracy Induced by Streptomycin in E. coli,” Nature 254:161-163 (1975).  (reprinted in Benchmark Papers in Genetics Series, Genes, Proteins and Cellular Aging, ed. R. Holliday, van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, (1976).

 

Galas, D. J. and Branscomb, E. W.,  “Ribosome Slowed by Mutation to Streptomycin Resistance,”  Nature 262:617-619 (1976).

 

Galas, D. J. and Branscomb, E. W.,  “The Enzymatic Determinants of DNA Polymerase Accuracy: Theory of T4 Polymerase Mechanisms,”  J. Mol. Biol. 124:653-687 (1978).

 

Calos, M. P., Galas, D. J. and Miller, J. H.,  “Genetic Studies of the lac Repressor, VIII.  DNA Sequence Change Resulting from an Intragenic Duplication,”  J. Mol. Biol. 126:865-869 (1978).

 

Galas, D. J.,  “An Analysis of Sequence Repeats in the lacI Gene of E. coli,”  J. Mol. Biol. 126:858-863 (1978).

 

Galas, D. J.,  “On the Symmetries of Multipalindromic DNA Sequences,” J. Theor. Biol. 72:57-73 (1978).

 

Galas, D. J. and Schmitz, A.,  “DNAase Footprinting: A Simple Method for the Detection of Protein-DNA Binding Specificity,”  Nucleic Acids Res. 5:3157-3170 (1978).

 

Miller, J. H., Coulondre, C., Schmeissner, U., Schmitz, A. and Galas, D. J.,  “Altered lac Repressors Generated by the Supression of Nonsense Mutations, in Nonsense Mutations and tRNA Suppressors,” (eds. J. E., Celis and J. D. Smith) Academic Press, London (1979).

 

Clayton, L. K., Goodman, M. F., Branscomb, E. W. and Galas, D. J., “Error Induction and Correction by Mutant and Wild-Type T4 DNA Polymerases: Kinetic Error Discrimination Mechanisms,”  J. Biol. Chem. 254:1902-1912 (1979).

 

Schmitz, A. and Galas, D. J.,  “The Interaction of RNA Polymerase and lac Repressor with the lac Control Region,”  Nucleic Acids Res. 6:111-137 (1979).

 

Schmitz, A. and Galas, D. J.,  “Sequence-Specific Interaction of the Tight-Binding 112-X86 lac Repressor with Non-operator DNA,”  Nucleic Acids Res. 8:487-506 (1980).

 

Galas, D. J.,  “Translation and Replication Accuracy: Some Theoretical Considerations,  Proceedings of the Conference on Structural Pathology of DNA and the Biology of Ageing, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Zentrallaboratorium für Mutagenitätsprüfung, Freiburg im Breisgau, BRD,” Harold Boldt Verlag, Bonn, 108 (1980).

 

Miller, J. H., Calos, M. P., Galas, D. J., Büchel, D. and Müller-Hill, B.,  “Genetic Analysis of Transposition into the lac Region of E. coli,” J. Mol. Biol. 144:1-18 (1980).

 

Galas, D. J., Calos, M. P. and Miller, J. H.,  “DNA Sequence Analysis of Tn9 Insertions in the lacZ Gene,”  J. Mol. Biol. 144:19-41 (1980).

 

Galas, D. J., Miller, J. H., Calos, M. P.,  “Genetic and Sequencing Studies of the Specificity of Transposition into the lac region of E. coli,” Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 45:243-257 (1981).

 

Galas, D. J. and Chandler, M.,  “On the Molecular Mechanisms of Transposition,”  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 78:4858-4862 (1981).

 

Chandler, M., Clerget, M. and Galas, D.,  “The Transposition Frequency of IS1-flanked Transposons is a Function of Their Size,”  J. Mol. Biol. 154:229-243 (1982).

 

Galas, D. J. and Chandler, M.,  “The Structure and Stability of Tn9-Mediated Cointegrates-Evidence for two Pathways of Transposition,” J. Mol. Biol. 154:245-272 (1982).

 

Schmitz, A. and Galas, D. J.,  “The Study of Protein-DNA Binding Specificity: DNase Footprinting,” (review) in Methods in DNA and RNA Sequencing, ed. S. Weissmann,76 (1984).

 

Hirschel, B. H., Galas, D. J. and Chandler, M.,  “Cointegrate Formation by Tn5, but not Transposition, is Dependent on recA,”  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.  79:4530-4534 (1982).

 

Hirschel, B. H., Galas, D. J., Berg, D. and Chandler, M.,  “Structure and Stability of Transposon-5-Mediated Cointegrates,”  J. Mol. Biol. 159:557 (1982).

 

Chandler, M. and Galas, D. J.,  “IS1-mediated DNA Tandem Duplication of Plasmid pBR322: Dependence on recA, and on DNA Polymerase I,”  J. Mol. Biol. 165:183-190 (1983).

 

Chandler, M. and Galas, D.,  “Cointegrate Formation Mediated by Tn9. II. Activity of IS1 is Modulated by DNA Sequences,”  J. Mol. Biol., 170:61-91 (1983).

 

Galas, D. and Smith, T. F.,  “The Relationship Between Codon Boundaries and Multiple Reading Frame Preferences: Coding Organization of Bacterial Insertion Sequences,”  Molecular Biology and Evolution 1:260-268 (1984).

 

Waterman, M., Arratia, R. and Galas, D.,  “Pattern Recognition in Several Sequences: Consensus and Alignment,”  Bull. Math. Biol. 46:515-527 (1984).

 

Chandler, M. and Galas, D.,  “Studies on the Transposition of IS1,” Basic Life Sci 30:53-77 (1985).

 

Galas, D., Eggert, M. and Waterman, M.,  “Rigorous Pattern Recognition Methods for DNA Sequences: Analysis of Promoter Sequences for E. coli,” J. Mol. Biol. 186:117-128 (1985).

 

Galas, D.,  “An Introduction to the Problem of Accuracy” (review) Chapter in Accuracy in Molecular Processes: Its Control and Relevance to Living Systems, Chapman & Hall, London, New York, ed.Kirkwood Rosenberger & Galas (1986).

 

Zerbib, D., Gamas, P., Chandler, M., Prentki, P., Bass, S. and Galas, D.,  “Specificity of Insertion of IS1,”  J. Mol. Biol. 185:517-524 (1985).

 

Gamas, P., Galas, D. and Chandler, M.,  “DNA Sequence at the End of IS1 Required for Transposition,”  Nature 317:458-460 (1985).

 

Prentki, P., Teter, B., Chandler, M. and Galas, D.,  “Functional Promoters Created by the Insertion of Transposable element IS1,”  J. Mol. Biol. 191:383-393 (1986).

 

Gamas, P., Burger, A.C., Churchward, G., Caro, L., Galas, D. and Chandler, M.,  “Replication of  pSC101: Effects of Mutations in the E. coli  DNA binding Protein IHF,”  Mol. Gen Genet. 204:85-89 (1986).

 

Prentki, P., Gamas, P., Chandler, M. and Galas, D.,  “Functions of the Ends of IS1,” Replication and Recombination of DNA,  Kelly et al.,(eds.) Alan R. Liss, Inc. pp. 719-734 (1987).

 

Gamas, P., Chandler, M., Prentki, P. and Galas, D.,  E. coli Integration Host Factor Binds Specifically to the Ends of the Insertion Sequence IS1 and to its Major Insertion Hot-Spot in pBR322,”  J. Mol. Biol. 195:261-272 (1987).

 

Gamas, P., Caro, L., Galas, D. and Chandler, M.,  “Expression of F Transfer Functions Depends on the E. coli Integration Host Factor,” Mol. Gen. Genet. 207:302-305 (1987).

 

Prentki, P., Chandler, M. and Galas, D.,  E. coli Integration Host Factor Bends the DNA at the Ends of IS1 and in an Insertion Hotspot with Multiple IHF Binding Sites,”  EMBO Journ. 6:2479-2487 (1987).

 

Prentki, P., Pham, M. H., Gamas, P., Chandler, M. and Galas, D., “Artificial Transposable Elements in the Study of Insertion Sequence IS1,”  Gene 61:91-101 (1987).

 

Zerbib, D., Jakowec, M. J., Prentki, P., Chandler, M. and Galas, D., “Expression of Proteins Essential for IS1 Transposition: Specific Binding of InsA to the Ends of IS1,”  EMBO Journ. 6:3163-3169 (1987).

 

Prentki, P., Pham, M-H. and Galas, D. J.,  “Plasmid Permutation Vectors to Monitor DNA Bending,”  Nucl. Acids Res. 15:10060 (1987).

 

Muller, F., Clarkson, S. G. and Galas, D.,  “Sequence of a 3.18 kb Tandem Repeat of Xenopus laevis DNA containing 8 tRNA Genes,”  Nucleic Acids Res. 15:7191 (1987).

 

Jakowec, M., Prentki, P., Chandler, M. and Galas, D.,  “Mutational Analysis of the Open Reading frames of IS1: Proteins Required for Transposition,”  Genetics 120:47-55 (1988).

 

Galas, D. and Chandler, M.,  “Bacterial Insertion Sequences” (review) chapter 4 in Mobile DNA, pp. 109-162, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. (1989).

 

Hemsley, A., Arnheim, N. and Galas, D. J.,  “A Simple Method for Site-directed Mutagenesis Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction,”  Nucleic Acids Res. 17:6545-6551 (1989).

 

Zerbib, D., Chandler, M., Freund, E., Prentki, P. and Galas, D., “Functional Organization of the Ends of IS1: Specific Binding Site for an IS1-encoded Protein,” The EMBO Journal, 9:456-463 (1990).

 

Cui, X., Li, H., Goradia, T. M., Lange, K., Kazazian, H. H., Galas, D. J. and Arnheim, N.,  “Single Sperm Typing: Determination of Genetic Distance Between the G globin and Parathyroid hormone Loci,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 86:9389-9393 (1989).

 

Galas, D.,  “Transposable Genetic Elements: Agents of Complex Change,” Prog. Clin. Biol. Res., 340A: 135-144  (1990).

 

Branscomb, E. W., Slezak, T., Galas, D. J., Pae, R., Carrano, A. V. and Waterman, M. S.,  “Optimizing Restriction Fragment Fingerprinting Methods for Ordering Large Genomic Libraries,” Genomics  8:351-366 (1990).

 

Zerbib, D., Prentki, P., Gamas, P., Freund, E., Galas, D.J., and Chandler, M., “Functional Organization of the Ends of IS1:  Specific Binding Site for an IS1-encoded Protein,” Molecular Microbiology,  4(9):1477-1486  (1990).

 

Zerbib, P., Polard, P., Escoubas, J. M., Galas, D.J., and Chandler, M., “The Regulatory Role of the IS1-encoded InsA Protein in Transposition,” Molecular Microbiology,  4(3):471-477  (1990).  

 

Zerbib, D., Polard, P., Escoubas, J. M., Chandler, M. and Galas, D., “The Regulatory Role of the IS1-encoded InsA Protein in Transposition,” Mol. Microbiol.  5(2):1477-1486 (1991)

 

Escoubas, J.M., Prere, M.F., Fayet, O., Salvignol, I., Galas, D. J., Zerbib, D., and Chandler, M., “Translational Control of Transposition Activity of the Bacterial Insertion Sequence IS1,” The EMBO Journal, 10:705-712, (1991).  

 

Collins, F., Galas, D. J., “A New Five-year Plan for the U. S. Human Genome Project,”  Science, 262: 43-46  (1993).

 

Galas, D. J., “Important Unanswered Questions Concerning Radiation Risk Estimates,” Radiat. Res., 136:139-143,  (1993).

 

Betermier, M., Galas, D. J., “Interaction of Fis Protein with DNA: Bending and Specificity of Binding,” Biochimie., 76:958-967, (1994).

 

Levy-Lahad E., Wasco W., Poorkaj P., Ramano D., Oshima J., Pettingell W., Yu C., Jondro P., Schmidt S., Wang K., Crowley A., Fu YH., Guenette S., Galas D., Nemens E., Wijsman E., Bird T., Schellenberg G., Tanzi R., “Candidate Gene for the Chromosone 1 Familial Alzheimer’s Disease Locus,” Science 269:973-977  (1995).

 

Sun F, Galas, D. J., and Waterman, M.S., “A Mathematical Analysis of In Vitro Molecular Selection-Amplification,” J Mol. Biol.,  258:650-660, (1996).

 

Galas, D. J., “Novel Genes Novel Functions and New Drugs,” Pharmaceutical Forum, 8:22-25 (1997).

 

Galas, D. J., “New Genetic Tools: Their Roles in Drug Discovery and Development,” International Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine, 12:13-18 (1998).

 

Teter, B., Goodman, S. D., and Galas, D. J., “DNA Bending and Twisting Properties of Integration Host Factor Determined by DNA Cyclization,” Plasmid 43:73-84 (2000)

 

Brunkow, M., Jeffery, E., Hjerrild, K., Paeper, B., Clark, L., Wilkinson, J.E., Galas, D., Ziegler, S., Ramsdell, F.,  “Disruption of a New Forkhead/Winged-Helix Protein, Scurfin, Results in the Rapidly Fatal Lymphoproliferative Disorder of the Scurfy (sf) Mutant Mouse,” Nature Genetics, 27:68-73, (2001).

 

Brunkow, M., Gardner, J., Van Ness, J., Paeper, B., Kovacevich, B., Proll, S., Skonier, J., Zhao,

L., Sabo, P.J., Fu, Y., Alisch, R., Gillett, L., Colbert, T., Tacconi, P., Galas, D., Hamersma, H.,

Beighton, P., Mulligan, J., “Bone Dysplasia Sclerosteosis Results from Loss of the SOST Gene

Product, a Novel Cystine Knot-Containing Protein,” American Journal of Human Genetics,

68:577-589, (2001).

 

Strahling-Hampton, K. Proll, S., Paeper, B., Zhao, Lei, Charmley, P., Brown, A., Gardner, J., Galas, D.J., Schatzman, R., Beighton, P., Papapoulos, S., Hamersma, H., and Brunkow, M, “ A 52kb deletion in the SOST-MEOX1 intergenic region on 17q12-q21 is associated with van Buchem’s disease in the Dutch population,” American Journal of Medical Genetics, Jun 15: 110 (2): 144-152, (2002).

 

    Dewey, T.G., Galas, D., “Dynamic Models of Gene Expression and Classification,” Functional and Integrative Genomics, 1:269-278, (2001).

 

    Galas, D., Dewey, T.G.,  “Integration of New Technologies in the Future of the Biological Sciences, Firepower in the Lab:  Advanced Automation in the Fight Against Biological Threat,” (eds.  Layne and Beugelsdijk) Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 227-242 (2001).

 

Galas, D.J., “Making Sense of the Sequence,” Science, 291:1257-60, (2001).

 

Galas, D.J., “The Invention of Footprinting”, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 26:690-693, (2001).

 

Galas, D.J., “Against giants or windmills?  The struggle for the human genome.” Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 27:324-325, (2002).

 

 

 

National Research Council Steering Committee:  George L. Kenyon, David M. DeMarini, Elaine Fuchs, David J. Galas, Jack F. Kirsch, Thomas S. Leyh (contributing author), Walter H. Moos, Gregory A. Petsko, Dagmar Ringe, Gerald M. Rubin, and Laura C. Sheahan (Staff Director), “Defining the Mandate of Proteomics in the Post-Genomic Era:  Workshop Report,” Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 1:763-780, (2002).

 

Hood, L. and Galas, D.J., “The Digital Code of DNA,” Nature, 421:444-448, (2003)

 

Bhan, A., Galas, D. J. and Dewey, T.G., “A Duplication Growth Model of Gene Expression Networks,” Bioinformatics, 18, 1486-1493 (2002)

 

Chung, F., Dewey, T.G., Lu Liang, and Galas, D. J. “Duplication Models and Biological Networks,” Journal of Computational Biology   (in press, 2003).

 

Van Ness, J., Van Ness, L., Galas, D.J., “Isothermal Reactions for the Amplification of Oligonucleotides,” PNAS, April 15, 100: 4504-4509 (2003).

 

Van Ness, J., Erwin, B., Galas, D.J., “Self-Amplifying Arrays,” Science, (Submitted, 2003)

 

Galas, David J., Riggs, Henry, “Global Science and U.S. Security,) Science, 300: 1847, (2003).

 

BOOKS:

 

Kirkwood, T. B. L., Rosenberger, R. and Galas, D. (editors),  Accuracy in Molecular Processes: Its Control and Relevance to Living Systems,  Chapman and Hall, London and New York, 398 pages (1986).

 

Galas, D., and McCormack, S.,