The Professors

A few of the excellent Professors lecturing in this course are ...

Professor John Blamire
Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Brooklyn College, CUNY

Biography

Professor Blamire graduated from the University of Manchester in England with a Batchelor's degree in Biological Chemistry and a PhD in Nucleic Acid fractionation.
His research interests range from Cell Biology to the use of computers in simulating biological phenomena.
He has published over 40 research papers in scientific journals and two introductory biology text books.
He was a Tow Professor at Brooklyn College for two years.
He lectures in Core Biology, is the Chairman of the Biology Department, and advises on the use of computers in academic programs.
He is currently working on a wide ranging project to bring multimedia into the Biology curriculum.
He created this website and all that you see in it.
He speaks in a funny English accent... Listen... to a brief introduction.

Professor Charlene Forest
Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Brooklyn College, CUNY

Professor Forest graduated from Cornell University.
She studied with Professor Rober Togasaki at Indianna University where she obtained a Ph.D. using algae as topic for research.
At Harvard University Professor Forest did postdoctoral research with Professor Ursula Goodenough on the cell biology of the organism Chlamydomonas
She came to Brooklyn College in 1979.
Professor Forest's current research studies fertilization in algae and cell to cell interactions.
Her busy laboratory is home to several graduate and undergraduate research students.
She was one of the originators of the Core 8.1 Biology program at Brooklyn College.
She is interested in cats, orchids and Chinese brush painting.

Dr Catherine McEntee
Department of Biology
Brooklyn College, CUNY

Dr. McEntee did her undergraduate work at Newmann College in Aston Pennsylvania.
She did her graduate work at the Medical College of Pennsylvania on the regulation of gene transcription in yeast mitochondria.
Her mentor and graduate advisor was Dr. Alan Hudson.
Dr. McEntee then did postdoctoral research in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton under the guidance of Dr. James Broach.
She studied the regulation of trehalase (an enzyme) in yeast.
Her busy schedule does not allow much time for hobbies, but she enjoys weekend crosswords, cooking, hiking and animals.
She is currently the Director of Research and Program Co-ordinator for the STEP and CSTEP programs at Brooklyn College.

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