Daniel Woods - Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher, SUNY-Albany
PhD, SUNY-Albany; Molecular, Cellular, Developmental and Neuro (MCDN)- Biology
BS, SUNY-Albany; Biology

Courses Taught at ACPHS

Biochemistry (CHE311)
General Biology Lab 1 (BIO121)
General Biology Lab 2 (BIO122)

Research Interests

Bacterial Stress Responses
Intein Biology
Mycobacterial RNA Recycling Pathway
Clinical Enterics

Conditional DnaB Protein Splicing Is Reversibly Inhibited by Zinc in Mycobacteria | mBio (asm.org)
Construction and Quantitation of a Selectable Protein Splicing Sensor Using Gibson Assembly and Spot Titers – PubMed (nih.gov)

Research Scientist
David Axelrod Institute
Wadsworth Center
Division of Infectious Diseases

Currently developing an assay at Wadsworth Center to test clinical enteric samples for the presence of pathogenic E. coli.
Selected to participate in the “Expression, Purification & Analysis of Proteins and Protein Complexes” course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Spring ’22!