Paul S Cohen

Paul Cohen was born in Boston, Massachusetts and earned his A.B. in General Science at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA in 1960 and his A.M. in Biology in 1962 and his Ph.D. in Biology in 1964 at Boston University in Boston, MA. He did his Post-Doctoral work at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN from 1964-1966. In 1966 he joined the Department of Bacteriology (now the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology) at the University of Rhode Island and retired this year. From 1964...See more

Paul Cohen was born in Boston, Massachusetts and earned his A.B. in General Science at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA in 1960 and his A.M. in Biology in 1962 and his Ph.D. in Biology in 1964 at Boston University in Boston, MA. He did his Post-Doctoral work at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN from 1964-1966. In 1966 he joined the Department of Bacteriology (now the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology) at the University of Rhode Island and retired this year. From 1964-1978 he studied regulation of RNA and protein synthesis in bacteriophage T4 infected E. coli, from 1978-1983 he studied regulation of RNA and protein synthesis in Vesicular Stomatitis Virus infected Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, and from 1983-present, he's studied how E. coli colonizes the large intestines of mice. He's served on the editorial boards of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, The European Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Infection and Immunity. He spent Sabbaticals at MIT, at Ciba-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland, at The University of Goteborg in Goteborg, Sweden, and at The Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark. He's consulted for Bayer Corp., Wuppertal, Germany, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc., Nutley, NJ, Ciba-Geigy Ltd, Basel, Switzerland, and Intervet International, Boxmeer, The Netherlands. He is married to Catherine Trebino, a Research Associate at Brown University and has three children. Recently (2005), he co-edited a book entitled Colonization of Mucosal Surfaces (ASM Press), with James Nataro, Harry Mobley, and Jeffrey Weiser See less