Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology

Faculty

Background:

Susan Ely is a Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Following graduate training in the Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology at Tufts University Medical School in Boston, Dr. Ely studied nuclear pore complex formation as a European Molecular Biology Organization fellow at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. A subsequent post-doctoral fellowship was spent at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in West Berlin, researching plasmid regulation in E.coli. Dr. Ely returned to the US and was employed as a Principal Investigator at Repligen Corporation in Cambridge Massachusetts where her research involved the insecticidal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis. Later Dr. Ely again moved to the other side of the pond to conduct research on Haemophilus influenzae at the University of Oxford in the UK. From Oxford, she moved to Marlow-on-Thames and became a research scientist at ICI Seeds, a division of the large British company, ICI. At ICI Seeds Dr. Ely led a research team working on biological control agents; in the course of this research the group discovered a new class of B.thuringiensis insecticidal proteins. Dr. Ely returned again to the US in 1992 to conduct sponsored research for ICI at Cornell University. Recently she developed a lecture course on Biotechnology, which she has taught at the University of Helsinki, and at Cornell during the summer session. In addition to authorship on various scientific publications, Dr. Ely is an inventor on a number of granted patents. In July 1998 Dr. Ely taught a Cornell Adult Universtiy course on DNA Applications; the course was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and was attended by 25 participants ranging in age from 16 to 84.