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Robert Farrell, Ph.D.

Specialties: Biotechnology

Dr. Robert Farrell is a professor of biology at Penn State University. He has thirty-five years of hands-on experience with molecular biology and animal tissue culture methods, ranging from the classical to the contemporary. In addition to his teaching experience and research enterprise focusing on transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression, he served as an associate editor for Plant Molecular Biology Reporter and is a frequent peer-reviewer for journals within his discipline.

Dr. Farrell has also consulted extensively within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and is occasionally called upon as an expert witness. In addition to his research, he has been the recipient of two awards for excellence in teaching from Penn State. Previously, he served as President and principal investigator for Exon Intron, a biotechnology education and laboratory service firm. His previous clients have included Bayer, Becton Dickinson, Pfizer, Millipore, Abbott Labs, the USDA, PGC Scientifics, Dynal, Polaroid, Roche, Sigma Chemical, and Syntex Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Farrell received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from The Catholic University of America and his B.S. in Biology from Providence College.

Courses:

Molecular Biology Techniques – Applications in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

Publications:

Dr. Farrell has authored five editions of RNA Methodologies: A Laboratory Guide for Isolation and Characterization (Elsevier). He has also written journal articles for such publications as J. Cellular Physiology, Molecular and General Genomics, Clinical Biotechnology, J. American Society for Horticultural Science, Tree Physiology, HortScience, FEMS Yeast Research, FMS Microbiology Ecology, Biology and Fertility of Soils, BMC Plant Biology, Planta, Tree Genetics and Genomes, Mesoamericana, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, and American Biotechnology Laboratory.

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