Dr. Michael L. Keith

I teach Freshman Chemistry, Biochemistry, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Biology. I am also the Graduate Advisor/Coordinator of the Chemistry Graduate Program.

• Professor, Chemistry, Cal Poly Pomona, 1990-present
• Associate Professor, Chemistry, Cal Poly Pomona, 1984-1990
• Postdoctoral Research Associate/American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1981-1984
• Graduate Research Assistant, Biochemistry, Purdue University, 1976-1981
• Undergraduate, Biochemistry, U.C. Davis, 1974-1976
• Undergraduate, Physical Sciences, College of the Sequoias, 1972-1976

Background

Interests, Activities & Plans

tennis, hiking, cross-country skiing, beach activities (body surfing and boogie boarding), snorkeling, and scuba.

Travel: Hawaii (Kauai is my favorite), Caribbean, Baja. I want to go to: more Carribean, South Pacific.

Hobbies: reading science fiction, espionage, factual history and historical fiction. I also enjoy gardening and aquaria.

Professional Interests:

I would like to write a Survey of Biochemistry book which reflects my biases about fundamental biomolecules and structure/function relationships.

My senior project students and graduate students are currently using Random Primer PCR and RFLP mapping to analyze mitochondrial and nuclear DNA.

I am interested in developing funding for graduate research associateships and funding for chemistry major academic workshops.

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Last updated on April 10, 1997.

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