Michael McClelland (academic)
{{Short description|Professor of microbiology and genetics}}
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Michael McClelland is an academic. He is a professor of microbiology and genetics at the University of California, Irvine.{{Cite web|title=Michael McClelland|url=https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/michael-mcclelland/|access-date=2021-04-08|language=en-US}}
Early life and education
Mcclelland had his early education at the University of Ghana Primary School, Methodist College, Belfast, and Boynton Junior High School in Ithaca, New York.
He had his secondary education at the Accra Academy from 1970 to 1972, and King Edward VII School, Sheffield from 1973 to 1975. He then proceeded to the University of Bristol, England, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1978.
In 1980, McClelland moved to the United States for his postgraduate studies at the University of Georgia, and graduated with a doctorate degree in 1983 with his research studies in Molecular and Population Genetics. He then continued at the University of California, Berkeley for a post doctoral research in Molecular Evolution under the supervision of Evolutionary Biologist, Allan Wilson from 1983 to 1984. After his post doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, McClelland entered the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons as a Lucille. P. Markey Scholar for a post doctoral research in Molecular Genetics under the direction of molecular geneticist Charles Cantor.{{Cite book|last=Chirikjian|first=Jack G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsHwAAAAMAAJ&q=michael+mcclelland+lucille|title=Restriction Endonucleases and Methylases|date=1987|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-01285-2|language=en}} His research lasted from 1984 to 1986.{{Cite web|title=Michael McClelland - San Diego Institute for Biological Research|url=http://www.sdibr.org/Faculty/mcclelland|access-date=2021-04-08|website=sdibr.org}}
Career
McClelland taught Chemistry and Biology at Beveweerd School prior to entering the University of Georgia for his postgraduate studies. Following his second post doctoral research at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, he joined the University of Chicago's Biochemistry Molecular Biology Department in 1986 as an L. P. Markey Assistant Professor.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLITAQAAMAAJ&q=michael+mcclelland+chicago|title=Annual Report of Cancer Research at the University of Chicago|date=1987|publisher=The University|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uSBAAAAIAAJ&q=mcclelland+Chicago+|title=TRNA, Cloned Human DNA and E. Coli Sequences, Histone Genes and Restriction Enzyme Recognition Sequences|date=1989|publisher=IRL Press|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uSBAAAAIAAJ&q=Chicago+|title=TRNA, Cloned Human DNA and E. Coli Sequences, Histone Genes and Restriction Enzyme Recognition Sequences|date=1989|publisher=IRL Press|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rv-OAAAAIAAJ&q=michael+mcclelland+chicago|title=Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 1989 Meeting on Genome Mapping and Sequencing: April 26-April 30, 1989|date=1989|publisher=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory|language=en}} In 1989, he became the Research Program Director of the California Institute Biological Research, San Diego, California.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GBoJAQAAMAAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+vaccine+research+Institute|title=New Horizons in Gene Amplification Technologies: New Techniques and Applications, June 8-10, 1994, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California|date=1994|publisher=Cambridge Healthtech Institute|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pj6OLmMUKJUC&q=Michael+McClelland+Biological+Research&pg=RA2-PA4|title=Human Genome News|date=1989|publisher=Biomedical and Environmental Information Analysis Section of the Health and Safety Research Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Innis|first1=Michael A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUhE2Duuf5MC&q=Michael+McClelland+Biological+Research&pg=PR10|title=PCR Strategies|last2=Gelfand|first2=David H.|last3=Sninsky|first3=John J.|date=1995-07-06|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-053854-9|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Lockyer|first=Sir Norman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yRtVAAAAMAAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+Biological+|title=Nature|date=1869|publisher=Macmillan Journals Limited|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Sobral|first=Bruno W. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhbaBwAAQBAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+Biological+Research&pg=PA36|title=The Impact of Plant Molecular Genetics|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4615-9855-8|language=en}}
He worked in this capacity until 1995 when he was appointed Professor and Director of Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, California.{{Cite book|last=Project|first=Yellowstone Wolf|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPEkj2sFDsgC&q=Michael+McClelland+Kimmel&pg=PA9|title=Annual Report|date=2000|publisher=National Park Service, Yellowstone Center for Resources|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=McClelland|first1=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fH8TAQAAMAAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+San+Diego|title=Expression Genetics: Accelerated and High-throughput Methods|last2=Pardee|first2=Arthur Beck|date=1999|publisher=BioTechniques Books|isbn=978-1-881299-24-0|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Hather|first=Gregory James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFVOAQAAMAAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+Kimmel|title=Statistical Analysis of DNA Sequence Motifs and Microarray Data|date=2008|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaUTAQAAMAAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+Kimmel|title=Cancer Research|date=2008|publisher=University of Chicago Press|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Caetano-Anollés|first1=Gustavo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f0ptAAAAMAAJ&q=Michael+McClelland+Kimmel|title=DNA Markers: Protocols, Applications, and Overviews|last2=Gresshoff|first2=Peter M.|date=1997-09-16|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-16067-0|language=en}}
In 2009, he was appointed Scientific Director of the Vaccine Research Institute.{{Cite book|last1=Wiedmann|first1=Martin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ro9IENeEi_cC&q=Michael+McClelland+vaccine+research+Institute&pg=PR10|title=Genomics of Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens|last2=Zhang|first2=Wei|date=2011-02-04|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4419-7686-4|language=en}} At the said period, McClelland doubled as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Irvine. In April 2011 he was made Adjunct Professor of the university's department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He remained Director of Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, California until 2013 when he became a Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Irvine.
McClelland is a member of the UCI Cancer Centre. He served on the NCI (National Cancer Institute) Directors Challenge panel; twelve NCI RFA and ad hoc panels, and three USDA and NSF panels. He was the Chairman of Novel Technologies RFA Study Section, and an external reviewer for the Department of Education (UK).
Research work
McClelland's works are in the areas of salmonella, cancer, prostate, breast and DNA Methylation. He serves on the Editorial board of the International Journal of Microbiology. He also works with companies to develop cancer prognosticators and cancer therapies. He served on the Editorial board of Nucleic Acids Research from 1992 to 2007. He has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers and his works have been cited over 40,000 times.{{Cite web|title=Michael McClelland|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=65Wel8MAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2021-04-08|website=scholar.google.com}} He has 13 patents and his works are often featured in journals such as; Nature, Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Trends in Genetics, Journal of Bacteriology, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Molecular Microbiology, Genes & Development, and Genetics.
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