Roberto Kolter is professor of microbiology, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, an author, and past president of the American Society for Microbiology.
14 Facts About Roberto Kolter
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Roberto Kolter is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Microbiology.
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Since 2016, Roberto Kolter has been co-blogger of the popular microbiology blog, Small Things Considered.
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In parallel, Chimileski and Roberto Kolter wrote the book Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World.
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Roberto Kolter received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1975 and a PhD in biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1979.
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Roberto Kolter was then a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University with Charles Yanofsky from 1980 to 1983.
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Roberto Kolter joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School as an assistant professor in 1983, was promoted to associate professor in 1989, professor in 1994, and became professor emeritus upon his retirement from running a research laboratory in 2018.
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The eclectic nature of Roberto Kolter's research program was a result of his policy of encouraging postdoctoral scientists to explore independent interests.
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In total, Roberto Kolter has co-authored over 250 research and other scholarly articles which together have been cited over 50,000 times.
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Roberto Kolter's work defined an origin of DNA replication that led to the development of many suicide cloning vectors still in use today.
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Roberto Kolter is an advocate and participant in the communication of microbial science to early career microbiologists and non-scientific audiences.
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Chimileski and Roberto Kolter were advisors and contributed imagery for Invisible Worlds at the Eden Project, a permanent exhibition sponsored by the Welcome Trust.
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Roberto Kolter has a long record of teaching at Harvard University and at international summer courses.
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Roberto Kolter has been the cover editor of the Journal of Bacteriology since 1999 and was previously on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, mBio, and eLife.