Overview

I grew up in Florida and received my BS with highest honors from the Univesity of Florida in 1965. I completed my Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the American Cancer Society in the Department of Genetics of the University of Washington for two years. My first faculty position was in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Iowa, where I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. I joined the Department of Microbiology at NJMS in 1985. My research has focused on DNA replication in the model eukaryote, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; my research program was funded by NIH for 34 years. I have published more than 80 papers, and was recognized for my contributions by election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006. I have been active in graduate and medical education at NJMS, and was elected to the Master Educators Guild in 2005. I have been Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics since 2003. I became Director of Faculty Affairs for NJMS in 2010, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in 2011.

Education

PHD, 1971, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S, 1965, University of Florida

Relevant Publications

Theis, J.F., Irene, C., Dershowitz, A., Brost, R.L., Tobin, M.L., di Sanzo, F.M., Wang, J.Y., Boone, C. and Newlon, C.S.; The DNA damage response pathway contributes to the stability of chromosome III derivatives lacking efficient replicators; PLoS Genetics, 6: e1001227, 2010

Dershowitz, A., Snyder, M., Sbia, M., Skurnick, J.H., Ong, L.Y. and Newlon, C.S.; Linear derivatives of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome III can be maintained in the absence of autonomously replicating sequence elements; Molecular and Cellular Biology, 27: 4652-4663, 2007

Theis, J.F., Dershowitz, A., Irene, C., Maciariello, C., Tobin, M.L., Liberi, G., Tabrizifard, S., Korus, M., Fabiani, L. and Newlon, C.S.; Identification of mutations that decrease the stability of a fragment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome III lacking efficient replicators; Genetics, 177: 1445-1458, 2007

Theis, J.F. and Newlon, C.S.; Two compound replication origins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae contain redundant origin recognition complex binding sites; Molecular and Cellular Biology, 21: 2790-2801, 2001

Poloumienko, A., Dershowitz, A., De, J. and Newlon, C.S.; Completion of replication map of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome III; Molecular Biology of the Cell, 12: 3317-3327, 2001

Yang, C., Theis, J.F. and Newlon, C.S.; Conservation of ARS elements and chromosomal DNA replication origins on chromosomes III of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. carlsbergensis; Genetics, 152: 933-941, 1999

Deshpande, A.M. and Newlon, C.S.; DNA replication fork pause sites dependent on transcription; Science, 272: 1030-1033, 1996

Collins, I. and Newlon, C.S.; Meiosis-specific formation of joint DNA molecules containing sequences from homologous chromosomes; Cell, 76: 65-75, 1994

Greenfeder, S.A. and Newlon, C.S.; A replication map of a 61-kb circular derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome III; Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3: 999-1013, 1992

Van Houten, J.V. and Newlon, C.S.; Mutational analysis of the consensus sequence of a replication origin from yeast chromosome III; Molecular and Cellular Biology, 10: 3917-3925, 1990

Areas Of Interest

Cryptococcus neoformans

Eukaryotic chromosome replication

Infectious Disease

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Course List

GSND5200Q		Intro to Biomedical Sciences
MICR5040Q