H. Ernest Hemphill . Associate Professor Editor, Bio@SU hehemphi@syr.edu Office: 350 Life Sciences Complex (LSC) Phone: 315-443-3760 / fax: 315-443-2012 Education: • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1967 • Postdoc, University of Washington, 1967-69 Courses: • BIO 409 General Microbiology • BIO 421 Natural History of Medicinal Plants (Jr/Sr. Seminar) • BIO 435 Genetics Laboratory

RESEARCH

DNA sequence and structure; certain temperate bacteriophages of Bacillus subtilis spontaneously delete large fragments of their genomes when they are in the prophage state; current interest is in structure at the deletion breakpoints and in isolation of novel bacterial mutants that alter the deletion frequencies during the phage life cycle

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Slepecky, R.A. and H.E. Hemphill (1992). The Genus Bacillus - nonmedical. In: The Prokaryotes, 2nd. Ed. A. Balows et al (eds). Chapter 76. Springer-Verlag, New York Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey.

Hemphill, H.E. (1990). Bacteriophages. In: Molecular Biology Methods for Bacillus. C.R. Harwood and S.M. Cutting, (eds.), pp. 451-491, John Wiley and Sons Ltd. New York.

Spancake, G.A., S.D. Daignault and H.E. Hemphill (1987). Genome homology and divergence in the SPb-related bacteriophages of Bacillus subtilis. Can. J. Microbiol. 33: 249-255.