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Daniel A. Goodenough Ph.D.
Takeda Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Dan Goodenough is an internationally recognized cell biologist and
is one of the most celebrated and popular teachers at Harvard Medical
School. He has been in the forefront of promoting social responsibility
among medical students at Harvard and has been a central figure in working
to introduce curricula on health and global environmental change. He
co-teaches "Human Health and Global Environmental Change," the
course organized by The Center.
In addition to serving on the Center's faculty, Dr. Goodenough's service
includes: Faculty advisor, mentor, Four Directions Summer Research Program
for Native Americans (1995); Advisor, Biomedical Science Careers Program
(1998); Advisor, Project Success Summer Program (1998); Faculty Judge,
Southern New England Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (1999);
Council Member, Council of Distinguished Scholars Mentoring Dinners
(2002); Member of the Advisory Committee of the Longwood Green Campus
Initiative (2002); Program Committee and Organizer of Conference on
Environmental Justice, Roxbury, MA (2004); Program Committee Chair,
10th Anniversary Celebration of Alternatives for Community and Environment
(ACE), Roxbury, MA (2004) and a member of the Committee on the Environment
at Harvard University.
Selected Publications
White, T.W., D.A. Goodenough and D.L. Paul 1998 Targeted
disruption of connexin50 in mice results in microphthalmia
and zonular pulverulent cataracts J. Cell Biol. 143:815-825.
Deans, M.R., B. Volgyi, D.A. Goodenough, S.A. Bloomfield and D.L. Paul
2002 Connexin36 is essential for transmission of rod-mediated visual
signals in the mammalian retina. Neuron 36:703-712.
Landesman, Y., F.R. Postma, D.A. Goodenough, and D.L. Paul. 2003. Multiple
connexins contribute to intercellular communication in the Xenopus embryo.
J .Cell Sci. 116:29-38.
Tang, V.T. and D.A. Goodenough 2003 Paracellular ion channel at the
tight junction. Biophys. J. 84:1660-1673.
Goodenough, D.A. 2003 Problem-based learning, resources and science
in medical education. Biochem.Mol.Biol.Edu. 31:190-191.
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