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Deborah M. Hinton

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Deborah M. Hinton
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BS)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (MS, PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
ThesisThe synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides with RNA ligase (1980)

Deborah Meetze Hinton (born 1953) is an American microbiologist. She is a senior investigator and chief of the gene expression and regulation section in the laboratory of cell and molecular biology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Life

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Hinton completed a B.S. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974. Her undergraduate honors thesis was titled Electrochemical generation of metal dendrites as field desorption emitters.[1] Hinton earned a M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her dissertation was titled The synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides with RNA ligase. Her doctoral advisor was R.I. Gumport.[2] She was a postdoctoral fellow of the American Cancer Society from 1980 to 1982.[3]

Hinton is a senior investigator and chief of the gene expression and regulation section in the laboratory of cell and molecular biology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. She researches how the process of transcription initiation and activation is regulated at a molecular level.[3] Her scientific focus areas include microbiology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, and biochemistry.[4]

Hinton became a member of the American Society for Microbiology in 2009.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Hinton, Deborah Meetze (1974). Electrochemical generation of metal dendrites as field desorption emitters (Thesis). OCLC 947836856.
  2. ^ Hinton, Deborah Meetze (1980). The synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides with RNA ligase (Thesis). OCLC 7077827.
  3. ^ a b c "Principal Investigators". NIH Intramural Research Program. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  4. ^ "Publications | NIDDK". National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
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