R.D. Blake

R.D. Blake received his BS in biology and chemistry at Tufts College, and Ph.D in biochemistry from Princeton University. After a year of postdoctoral research at Princeton with Professor J.R. Fresco, he continued as a member of the research staff for five years, following which he joined the Biochemistry Department at the University of Maine. He has published papers on the thermodynamics of DNA, DNA denaturation, the effects of solvents and denaturants on DNA stability, macrosatellite evolution, and the effects of neutral drift on DNA sequence complexity.