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Christopher Burd, MS, PhD

Professor and Interim Chair of Cell Biology
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Education

PhD
Northwestern University (1994)


MS
Northern Illinois Univ (1987)


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Professor and Interim Chair of Cell Biology

Interim Chair, Cell Biology

Biography

Professor Burd received a PhD from Northwestern University for research with Professor Gideon Dreyfuss investigating pre-mRNA processing. In 1998, after postdoctoral studies with Professor Scott Emr of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, San Diego, he started his independent research program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, investigating inter-organelle trafficking. In 2011 be moved to the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Burd received a MERIT award from the US National Institutes of Health in 2017, and he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018 for his contributions toward understanding organelle biogenesis pathways.

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Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Diego (1998)
PhD
Northwestern University (1994)
MS
Northern Illinois Univ (1987)

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    US National Institutes of Health

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    Biological Sciences Area Committee & Tenure Appointments Committee

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    MERIT

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