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Current projects:
Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdelloid Rotifers
Funded by NSF, 2002-02-01 to 2006-01-31.

Education:
1951 Bachelor of Philosophy in Liberal Arts University of Chicago
1957 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry California Institute of Technology, under Linus Pauling
1957 Research Fellow California Institute of Technology
Academic appointments:
1958-1959 Assistant Professor of Chemistry California Institute of Technology
1959-1960 Senior Research Fellow in Chemical Biology California Institute of Technology
1964-1976 Associate Professor of Molecular Biology Harvard University
1976-present Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Harvard UNiversity
2000-present Adjunct Scientist Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Professional memberships:
Accademia Sanctae Clarae (Genoa)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Philosophical Society
Council on Foreign Relations
Institute of Medicine
Royal Society (London)
Russian Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences

Distinctions and awards:
1963 National Academy of Sciences Prize for Molecular Biology
1964 Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and Immunology
1966 D.Sc. (Hon.), Oakland University
1971 D.Sc. (Hon.), Columbia University
1971 Alumni Medal, University of Chicago Alumni Association
1972 Public Service Award, Federation of American Scientists
1975 Alumni Distinguished Service Award, California Institute of Technology
1975 D.Sc. (Hon.), University of Chicago
1975 Lehman Award, New York Academy of Sciences
1978 Leo Szilard Award, American Physical Society
1983 Presidential Award, New York Academy of Sciences
1984-1989 MacArthur Fellowship
1987 Sc.D. (Hon.), Yale University
1988 Sc.D. (Hon.), Princeton University
1990 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1995 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, Genetics Society of America
2002 Public Service Award, American Society for Cell Biology
2003 Sc.D.(Hon.), Northwestern University
2004 NYU Biology Award in Basic Sciences
2004 Linus Pauling Award
2004 NYU Biology Award in Basic Sciences
2004 Albert Lasker Special Achievement in Medical Science Award
Publications:

Mark Welch, D.B. and M. Meselson: Measurements of the genome size of the monogonont rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and of the bdelloid rotifers Philodina roseola and Habrotrocha constricta, Hydrobiologia [Hydrobiologia], 387/388:395-402 (1998).

Mark Welch, J.L. and M. Meselson: Karyotypes of bdelloid rotifers from three families, Hydrobiologia, 387/388:403-407 (1998).

Mark Welch, D.B. and M. Meselson: Evidence for the evolution of bdelloid rotifers without sexual reproduction or genetic exchange, Science, 288:1211-1215 (2000).

Mark Welch, D.B. and M. Meselson: Rates of nucleotide substitution in sexual and anciently asexual rotifers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 98:6720-6724 (2001).

Mark Welch, D.B. and M. Meselson: A survey of introns in three genes of rotifers, Hydrobiologia [Hydrobiologia], 446/447:333-336 (2001).

Mark Welch, D.B. and M. Meselson: Oocyte nuclear DNA content and GC proportion in rotifers of the anciently asexual Class Bdelloidea, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 79:85-91 (2003).

Mark Welch, D.B., M.P. Cummings, D.M. Hillis, and M. Meselson: Divergent gene copies in the asexual class Bdelloidea (Rotifera) separated before the bdelloid radiation or within bdelloid families, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 101:1622-1625 (2004).