Biography

Dr. Court received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, Department of Biology. He was a research associate at Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley in the laboratories of Drs. Alan Campbell and Harrison Echols, respectively, before joining the NIH and the National Cancer Institute in 1972. In 1988, Dr. Court joined the Frederick ABL-Basic Research Program as Chief of the Molecular Control and Genetics Section, and in 1999, he joined the Center for Cancer Research of the National Cancer Institute. 

Research Intrest

Genetics and Genomics, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry 

List of Publications
Li X, Thomason LC, Sawitzke JA, Costantino N, Court DL (2013) Bacterial DNA polymerases participate in oligonucleotide recombination. Mol Microbiol. 88: 906-920
Tal A, Arbel-Goren R, Costantino N, Court DL, Stavans J (2014) Location of the unique integration site on an Escherichia coli chromosome by bacteriophage lambda DNA in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 111: 7308-7312
Li X, Jun Y, Erickstad MJ, Brown SD, Parks A, et al. (2016)tCRISPRi: tunable and reversible, one-step control of gene expression. Sci. Rep.. 6:39076
Thomason LC, Costantino N, Court DL (2016) Examining a DNA Replication Requirement for Bacteriophage λ Red- and Rac Prophage RecET-Promoted Recombination in Escherichia coli mBio. 7: mBio e01443-16