Curriculum Vitae

Education   |   Employment   |   Honors   |   Memberships   |   Ad Hoc Reviewer for Scientific Journals   |   Editorial Positions   |   Research

 
Keith D. Robertson, Ph.D.

 
Education
1992B.S. Biochemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1996Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Baltimore, MD

 
 
Brief Chronology of Employment
1996-97Fellow, Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(Mentor:  Dr. Richard Ambinder)
1997-99Fellow, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
(Mentor:  Dr. Peter Jones)
1999-00Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
(Mentor:  Dr. Alan Wolffe)
2000-04NCI Cancer Scholar, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
2004-Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL

 
 
Honors and Other Special Scientific Recognition
1997Stop Cancer, The Next Generation - Seed Grant Award
1999American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
1999AACR-Pharmacia and Upjohn Young Investigator Award
2000National Cancer Institute, Cancer Scholoar Program (K22 Grant Award)

 
 
Memberships/Societies
1999Epigenetics Society (formerly the DNA Methylation Society)
1999American Association for Cancer Research - Full Member
2002American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2003Epigenetics Society Board of Directors (2003-2005)
2005President, DNA Methylation Society / Epigenetics Society (2005-2007)
2007American Society for Microbiology

 
 
Ad Hoc Reviewer for Scientific Journals

Journal Reviewer (ad-hoc) for:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cancer Research, Oncogene, FEBS Letters, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Carcinogenesis, Clinical Cancer Research, The Lancet, Trends in Biochemical Science (TIBS), Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Genetics, Cancer Letters, Epigenetics, Laboratory Investigation, Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Journal of Cell Biology, Human Molecular Genetics, and Molecular and Cellular Biology

 
 
Editorial Postions
2005-Editorial Board, Epigenetics (journal)

 
 
Research Interests

  1. Mechanisms for the establishment and maintenance of cellular DNA methylation patterns and elucidation of how aberrations in these processes contribute to tumorigenesis and human disease.

  2. Interrelationships between DNA methylation, histone modifications, and chromatin structure.

  3. The role of epigenetic modifications in stem cell pluripotency.  Use of stem cells as models for examining the role of epigenetic modifications in tissue-specific differentiation and gene expression.  Epigenetics of tumor stem cells.

  4. Development and characterization of novel DNA methyltransferase inhibitors.

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