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 Norma P. Williams
Associate Professor

Ph.D. 1974. Howard University

 

RESEARCH:

Gene regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisae as it pertains to general control of amino acid biosynthesis.

TEACHING:

 

 

Office: Room Just Hall
Lab: Room Just Hall


Department of Biology
415 College Street, NW
Washington, D. C. 20059
Telephone: (202) 806-6941
Fax (202) 806-4564
nwilliams@howard.edu

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Ernest M. Hannig, Norma P. Williams, Ronald C. and Alan G. Hinnebusch. 1990. The translational activator GCN3 functions downstream from GCN1 and GCN2 in the regulatory pathway and couples expression to amino acid availability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 126: 549- 562.

Norma P. Williams, Alan G. Hinnebusch, Gary R. Fabian, and Thomas F. Donahue. 1989. Mutations in the structural genes for eukaryotic initiation factors 2a and 2B of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Translational control of GCN4 mRNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 86: 7515-7519.