About Professor Sikela

EDUCATION

1976    B.A., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

1978    M.Sc., Biology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio

1983    Ph.D., Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,Ohio

1983    Postdoctoral Fellowship, Molecular Biology, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA

1983    Postdoctoral Fellowship, Molecular Biology, Univ. of Colo. Medical School, Denver, CO

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

• Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2010-Present
• William Evans Visiting Professor Fellow, University of Otago at Christchurch, New Zealand, 2009-2010
• PAC for Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, 2008-Present
• Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Department of Pharmacology, 2006
• Professor, Department of Pharmacology, 2004 - present
• Member, Advisory Committee, Case Western Reserve University's NIH Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law, 2004-present
• Director of the University of Colorado Minority Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2002-present.
• Faculty Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, 2002-present
• Co-Founder, Evolutionary Genomics, 2001-present
• Scientific Advisory Board, Genomic Solutions, 2001-2003
• Scientific Advisory Board, Evolutionary Genomics, 2001-2004
• National Human Genome Research Institute, Senior Fellow, ELSI Program 1999-2000
• Department of Pharmacology Teacher of the Year Award 1997-98
• Second-year Medical Student Special Teaching Award, 1997-98
• Co-Founder, GenoPlex, 1997-2001
• Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee, University of Iowa NIH Human Genome Center, 1993-1996
• Eppley Institute Visiting Professor of Oncology, University of Nebraska School of Medicine, 1996
• Founder, Genome Technologies, 1994-95
• Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1994-2004.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine. 1987-1994.
• Co-Director, Molecular Biology Laboratory, VA Neurosciences and Schizophrenia Center, 1989-1995.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1983-1987.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tumor Biology Training Grant, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, 1983.
• National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology Training Grant, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 1977-1981.
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Biology, Department of Biology, Cleveland State University, 1976-1977.

 

GRADUATE TRAINING FACULTY MEMBERSHIPS

 

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, 2010-present
• Department of Pharmacology, 1987-present
• Human Medical genetics Program, 1996-present
• Neuroscience Program, 1989-present
• Molecular Biology Program, 1989-1999
• Medical Scientist Training Program, 1988-present
• Center for Computational Biology, 2001-present
• Faculty fellow, Institute for Behavioral genetics, 2002-present

 

SOCIETIES

 

• Society for Neuroscience, 1986-present
• American Society of Human Genetics, 1988-present
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1988-present
• American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1990-present
• Human Genome Organization (HUGO), 1991-present
• Research Society on Alcoholism, 1993-present
• National Center for Science Education 1997-present
• International Society for Computational Biology, 2002-present.