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Strohl Adviser Department of Microbiology To My Wife %% ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Donald H. Dean, for his support and encouragement. Don gave me the freedom to make my own mistakes (a privilege I never hesitated to use), but was always available with advice and support when I needed it. I admire his caring for the people in his group beyond caring about their science. I would also like to thank the members of my thesis committee. Prof. Berl R. Oakley and Prof. William R. Strohl for their suggestions and advice. I am grateful to Tom Boyle, Bill Chu, Steve Cohen, Dan Ellis, John Hopper, Inara Ladzins, John Lohr, Phyllis and Bill Martin, Jim McLinden, Penny Parker, John Perkins, Fred Perlak, Laura Pettine, Josanne Sabourin, Wes Workman, Dan Zeigler, and other members of the lab whose ideas and encouragement were invaluable, and whose tolerance of my humor was admirable. 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Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. PUBLICATIONS & ABSTRACTS • Clark, B.D., Lohr, J.R., and Dean, D.H. (1980). Genetic manipulation and phenotypic properties of plasmids of the insect pathogen. Bacillus thuringiensis. Second American Society for Microbiology Conference on Genetics and Molecular Biology of Industrial Microbiology. Bloomington, ID. October 7, 1980. (abstract) * Clark, B.D., Perlak, F.J., Chu, C.-Y., and Dean, D.H. (1982). The Bacillus thuringiensis genetic systems. In: Comparative Pathobiology, edited by LA. Bulla, Jr. and T.C. Cheng, pp. 155-173. Vol. 5. Plenum Press, New York., %v • Clark, B.D., Chu, C.-Y., Cohen, S.B., and Dean, D.H. (1982). Plasmid associated toxicity in Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. Atlanta, G A. March 7, 1982. (abstract) • Dean, D.H., Clark, BJ)., Lohr, J.R., and Chu, C.-Y. (1982). Recent advances in the genetics of research in Bacillus thuringiensis. Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control: Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Invertebrate Pathology. University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, (abstract) • Clark, B.D., and Dean, D.H. (1983). A high molecular weight plasmid is associated with toxicity in Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis. American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. March 9, 1983. (abstract) • Clark, B.D., and Dean, D.H. (1984). The antimicrobial susceptibility of various Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis strains. American Society of Microbiology Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MI. March 7, 1984. (abstract) • Boyle, T.M., Clark, B.D., and Dean, D.H. (1984). Restriction endonuclease mapping of three plasmids from Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis. Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology. Davis, California. August 9,1984. (abstract) • Clark, B.D., Boyle, T.M., Chu, C.-Y., and Dean, D.H. (1985). Restriction endonuclease mapping of three plasmids from Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis. Gene 36, 169-171. • McLinden, J.H., Sabourin, J.R., Clark, B.D., Gensler, D.R., and Dean, D.H. (1985). Cloning and expression of an insecticidal K-73 type crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki into Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 50, 623-628. • Clark, B.D., Rosenwasser, L.J., Webb, A.C., Irie, S., Gehrke, L., and Auron, P.E. (1986). Expression of biologically active human interleukin V 1 subpeptides by transfected COS cells. Sixth International Congress of Immunology. Toronto, Canada. July 7, 1986. (abstract) • Fenton, M.J., Clark, B.D., Collins, K., Rich, A., Webb, A., and Auron, P.E. (1986). Expression of the human IL-1 beta gene in THPl cells following LPS stimulation. Sixth International . Congress of Immunology. Toronto, Canada. July 7, 1986. (abstract) • Rosenwasser, L.J., Webb, A.C., Clark, B.D., Irie, S., Chang, L., Dinarello, C.A., Gehrke, L., Wolff, S.M., Rich, A., and Auron, P.E. (1986). Expression of biologically active human interleukin 1 subpeptides by transfected simian COS cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 5243-5246. • Clark, B.D., Collins, K.L., Gandy, M.S., Webb, A.C., Auron, P.E. (1986). Organization and structure of the human prointerleukin 1 beta gene. Congress on Research in Lymphokines and Other Cytokines. Boston, MA. August 12, 1986. (abstract) • Fenton, M.J., Clark, B.D., Collins, K.L., Webb, A.C., and Auron, P.E. (1986). Transcriptional regulation of the human prointerleukin 1 beta gene. Congress on Research in Lymphokines and Other Cytokines. Boston, MA. August 12, 1986. (abstract) • Clark, B.D., Collins, K.L., Gandy, M.S., Webb, A.C., and Auron, P.E. (1986). Genomic sequence for human prointerleukin 1 beta: possible evolution from a reverse transcribed prointerleukin 1 alpha gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 14, 7897-7914. • Rosenwasser, L.J., Auron, P., Gehrke, L., Clark, B., McDonald, B., Bradley, B., Epstein, E., Collins, K., Webb, A. (1986) Interleukin 1 - Review of structure and function, definition of an active site for T cells, and production by cultured vascular endotheliuni. In Biologically based immunomodulators in the therapy of rheumatic diseases, Pisetsky, P.S. and Rosenwasser, L.J., eds. Elsevier Scientific Publishers, NY. m • Fenton, M.J., Clark, B.D., Collins, K.L., Webb, A.C., and Auron, P.E. (1987). Transcriptional regulation of the human prointerleukin 1 beta gene. J. Immunol. 138, 3972-3979. Fenton, M.J., Clark, B.D., Collins, K.L., Webb, A.C., and Auron, P.E. (1987). The human proIL-l;9 gene is regulated by two distinct receptor, pathways. Fifth International Lymphokine Workshop, January 1987, Clearwater, FL. (abstract) • Fenton, M.J., Clark, B.D., Alexander, S.J., Webb, A.C.j Auron, P.E. (1987). Differential expression of the human prointerleukin 1 beta gene. In: Mechanisms of Control of Gene Expression, UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol. 67. Collen, B., Gage, L., Siddigui, M., Skalka, A.-M., and Weissback, H., eds. Alan R. Liss, New York. • Webb, A.C., Collins, K.L., Snyder, S.E., Rosenwasser, L.J., Clark, B.D., Eddy, R.L., Shows, T.B., Auron, P.E. (1987). Molecular cloning, expression and chromosomal assignment of a potential inhibitor of human prointerleukin 1^ processing. Lymphokine Research, Vol 6, No. 1. (abstract) • Fenton, M.J., Clark, B.D., Collins, A.C., Rich, A., Webb, A.C., Auron, P.E. (1987) Two pathways of human prointerleukin 1)9 gene regulation by PMA and LPS.
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