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Professor BECK, GREGORY (Boston)
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Biology 11

Phone: (617) 287-6619
Email: greg.beck@umb.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Immunology

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1994 - Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Pathology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

1982 - B.S., Biology, University of SUNY, Albany, NY

1974 - A.S., Biology, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY

Professional History:
1999present Associate Professor, Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
1994 1999 - Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA

1983 1989 - Research Associate, Pathology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

1973 1983 - Research Biologist, VA Medical Center, Northport, NY

Current Research Support:
National Science Foundation (DCB - 88100448 & MCB - 9304309)
Coprincipal Investigator: Isolation and Characterization of Primitive Cytokines
Gail S. Habicht and Gregory Beck, 9/1/88 - 2/28/97, $300,000

National Institutes of Health (AT/OD39685)
Principal Investigator: Foundations of the Vertebrate Acute Phase Response
Gregory Beck, 6/1/96 - 5/31/00, $110,307

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Principal Investigator: Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Invertebrate Natural Killer (NK) Cells: Potential Clinical Applications, Gregory Beck, 6/15/99 - 9/30/00 $7,500

National Science Foundation (MCB - 9904628)
Principal Investigator: 1999 FASEB Conference: Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System, Gregory Beck, Manickam Sugumaran, and Edwin L. Cooper, 1/99 - 12/99, $12,000

Selected Publications:
Beck, G. and Habicht, G.S.: Immunity and the Invertebrates. Scientific American, 275(5): 60 66, 1996.

Beck, G.: Macrokines: Invertebrate Cytokine - like Molecules? Frontiers in Bioscience 3: 559 - 569, 1998.

Beck, G., Ellis, T. and Truong, N.: Characterization of an IL - 1 Receptor from Asterias forbesi Coelomocytes. Cell. Immunol., 203: 66 - 73, 2000.

Beck, G., Ellis, T., Zhang, H., Lin, W., Beauregard, K., Habicht, G.S. and Truong, N.: Nitric Oxide Production by Coelomocytes of Asterias forbesi. Dev. Comp. Immunol., in press 2000.

Beck, G.: Cytokine - like Molecules and Invertebrate Innate Responses. In: Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System. Beck, G., Cooper, E.L., and Sugumaran, M., Eds., (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, in press, 2000).