J. WILLIAM LEVINSON, Ph.D. 5929 Margarido Drive Oakland, CA 94618 (510) 428-2779

EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1979, Biophysics. B.A.. University of California, Berkeley, 1969, Biophysics.

EMPLOYMENT Media Production Instructor, Piedmont and Tamalpais (screenwriting)School Districts, adult education. 1999 - 2000. Educational Film Maker, Alpha Spectrum Inc. Oakland Calif. Produce, write and direct videotapes and films for education, entertainment, and broadcast. 1979 to Present. Director. Alpha Spectrum Stage Inc., Oakland California, 1984- 2000 Director film and video productions. The Kearny Group (public relations), San Francisco, California, 1983 to 1984. Television director. Artists' Embassy Television Productions, San Francisco, California, 1982 to 1983.

Research Positions Instructor, Research Scientist — Carcinogenesis Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 1976-1979. Research Associate — Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit, Michigan. 1975-1976. National Institutes of Health Graduate Biophysics Trainee — Doctoral Student — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1969-1975, 1979. Researcher — Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 1977. Associate Director Predator Ecology Research Project — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. 1971. Advanced Studies Participant in Environmental Protection — Institute for the Study of Health and Society, Washington, D.C. 1970. Freelance Writer — 1975 to present. Write freelance articles for newspapers and magazines on scientific, environmental, and outdoor subjects.

AWARDS National Educational Film Festival ,Troubled Waters. San Francisco International Film Festival .One More Mountain. Educational Water Film Festival Troubled Waters. Telly Award.. Alpenworks. San Francisco Poetry Film Festival. In Passage. Nomad Videofilm Festival, Water Planet. Cine Poetry Festival, Water Planet Society for Historical Archaeology, Privy to the Past California State Exposition, Water Planet EarthVision Environmental Film Festival, Water Planet

PUBLICATIONS Non Fiction Fluorescent Labeling of DNA in Solution with Covalently Bound Acriflavine. Biochem. et Biophys. Acta, 447 (1976) 260-273. An Improved Acriflavine-Fuelgen Method. J. Histochem. Cytochem., 25 (1977) 355-358 A Moving Spot High Resolution Scanning Microspectrometer Using Focused Laser Illumination: Illustrations With Acriflavine Stained Sephadex Beads and Human Fibroblast Nuclei. J. Histochem. Cytochem.. 25 (1977) 1051-1057. Purification of Commercial Acriflavine By Sephadex LH-20 Column Chromatography. J. Histochem. Cytochem., 25 (1977) 1275 -1277. An Improved Acriflavine-Fuelgen Reagent for Quantitative DNA Cytofluorometry. J. Histochem. Cytochem., 2O (1978) 680-684. Biological and Biochemical Evidence That DNA Repair Processes In Normal Human Cells Act To Reduce the Lethal and Mutagenic Effects of Exposure To Carcinogens In: DNA Repair Mechanism. Hanawald, P.C. and Friedberg, E.C., editors. Academic Press. New York (1978). Fluorescent Labeling of Fragments of High Molecular Weight RNA. Anal. Biochem., 93 (1979) 399-406. Correlation Among Rates of Dimer Excision, DNA Repair Replication and Recovery of Human Cells From Potentially Lethal Damage Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation. Biophysical J. 28 (1979) 31 5-326. Characterization of Fertilization Antigens of Rana pipiens Ova. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. ( 1979).

Research Papers Presented at Scientific Meetings Fluorescent Labeling of DNA by Covalent Binding of Acriflavine. Biophysical J. 16 (1976) 91a. A Laser Flying Spot Fluorescence Microscope for the Quantitative Study of Fluorphore Distribution in Single Cells. Biophysical J. 16 ( 1976) 67a. A Comparison of the Effect of BP 4,5 Oxide and N-AcO-AAF on Repair Replication and DNA Synthesis in Human Cells Cancer Research 199 (1978). An Improved Acriflavine-Fuelgen Reagent For Quantitative DNA Cytofluorometry. Biophysical J 21 (1978) 97a. An Improved Acriflavine-Schiff Reagent for Quantitative DNA or Polysaccharide Cytofluorometry Sixth Engineering Foundation Conference on Automated Cytology, Bavaria, West Germany (1978). Biological and Biochemical Evidence that DNA Repair Processes in Normal Human Cells Act to Reduce the Lethal and Mutagenic Effects of Exposure to Carcinogens, J. Supramolecular Structure, 2 (1978). Biochemical and Biological Evidence of Repair in Human Cells of Damage to DNA by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Third International Symposium on Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Battelle Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio (1978). Kinetics of DNA Repair Synthesis in Human Fibroblasts Induced by Chemical Carcinogens and Ultraviolet Light. Biophysical J. 25 (1979) 154a. Correlation Among the Rates of Dimer Excision, DNA Repair Replication, and Recovery of Human Cells from Potentially Lethal Damage Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation. Biophysical J. 25 (1979) 155a. Excision of the Deaceylated C-8 Guanine DNA Adduct by Human Fibroblasts Correlates with Decreased Cytotoxicity and Mutagenicity of N-AcO-AAF. Cancer Research, 21 (1980). Interpretive Video: The Anderson Flat Case, Society for California Archaeology, 1995.

Selected Newspaper and Magazine Stories “What’s New in the Male Reproductive Field”. Ann Arbor News. April 21. 1975. p 11. “All You Wanted to Know about Condoms”. Ann Arbor News. May 11, 1975, p 19. “Reversible Vasectomy May Be on the Horizon”. Ann Arbor News. June 22, 1975, p 19. “Poor Man’s Yachting Guide. Detroit Magazine”, Detroit Free Press. June 10, 1977, p. 15. “When Michigan Shows Its True Colors. It’s Time to Take a Walk”. Detroit Magazine. Detroit Fret Press. October 16. 1977, p.16. “Cross Country Skiing Comes of Age”. Lansing Magazine, January, 1978, P 19 “Complete Guide to Canoeing in Michigan”. Lansing Magazine, May 1978, p. 29. “FIRECATS”, Phoenix Journal, October 92-October 93. “Kid Friendly Bike Trails”. Parents Press, July 1996, p17. “Video as an Interpretive Tool”. IntrepEdge. 3 (1996) p. 32 “Time to Dump the Richter Scale”. San Francisco Chronicle Oct. 17, (1999) p 9.

Selected Books and CD-ROM

FIRECATS, Insight Press, San Francisco,. CHILDREN OF THE CRANE: REFLECTIONS ON HIROSHIMA.

Selected Film and Video Productions & Credits “Shaping Oakland’s Shoreline”, Port of Oakland. “Good to the Last Drop” Kraft Foods “Water Planet” “Privy to the Past”, Caltrans in association with Sonoma State University The Journey Inside: The Computer” Intel. “Sharing the Neighborhood for 5000 years: The People of the Lake and the Uplands” Sonoma State University “Talking Glove”, “Biomuse”, “Ear Sounds”, “Theater Computer”, “Cameleon Caterpillar” "Calgene", CNN Science and Technology.. "Preparing Students For a Productive Worklife: New Perspectives on Career-Vocational Education", "The California Writing Project", "The California Math Project", "The California Literature Project", "Creating a Vision for School Excellence", "Shaping School Culture","New Visions For Professional Development", California Department of Public Instruction,. "Comet Halley: The View From Pioneer Venus" NASA. “Barrier Groins at Las Tunas Beach”, California State Lands Commission. “Real Estate After Tax Reform”, Today’s Business. (1986). “Star Wars: A Search for Security”, Physicians for Social Responsibility, . “Pepsi, The Choice of a New Generation”, Pepsi-Cola San Francisco. “You Belong to the City”, Pepsi-Cola San Francisco,. “Reach Out and Touch a Hand”, Bank of America.. “Women-For America, For the World”. Educational Film and Video Project,(1985). [Academy Award winner, 1986, Best short documentary] Festa Italiana”, San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf Association . “Caring is a Gift”, French Hospital of San Francisco.. “Savior Back School”, Safeway Stores Inc. “Starting Over”, Front Row Video, America Broadcasting Company. New’s Footage for KRON, San Francisco; KGO. San Francisco; KSBW, Salinas; KSBY, San Luis Obispo; KEYT, Santa Barbara. ECS/EZ” Who Cares”, “Electronic Claims Installation Training” Blue Shield of California One More Mountain”, America Paralysis Association.. Cry of the Condor”, Friends of the Earth . Troubled Waters”, University of California. Soar the Golden Shore”, KQED, Channel 9, San Francisco,.