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Dr. Merrill Gassman is a Professor
Emeritus of Biological Sciences
at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
serving as a faculty member from 1969 to 2000. He maintains a connection
to the campus as President and Webmaster of the UIC
Chapter of the State Universities Annuitants Association (SUAA).
Dr. Gassman is a Chicago
native who received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Chicago during the 1960s, majoring in Biology as an undergraduate
and receiving his graduate degrees in Botany. After carrying out postdoctoral
research in plant biochemistry at the Rockefeller
University in NewYork
City, he became a research plant physiologist with International Minerals
and Chemical Corp. (now part of the The
Mosaic Company) in Libertyville, IL before joining the faculty at UIC.
He has also held visiting faculty and research scientist positions at the
University of California at Davis,
Arizona State University in Tempe,
and the RIKEN Institute
in Wako, Japan.
Dr. Gassman is a member of the American Society
of Plant Biologists and the American
Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A selected group
of his publications may be found here.
Dr. Gassman is married and has three children and eight grandchildren. His hobbies include using his computer, traveling (particularly cruising), and gardening. His favorite musical artists are the Beatles and the Beach Boys. To contact him, send an email to: mgassman@uic.edu |
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Merrill Gassman with his Subaru Forester |
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