Paul Rowley, Ph.D

Rowley earned his B.A. at the University of Warwick in England, which introduced him to the fascinating aspects of microbiology and biochemistry. After working in the food safety industry, he began a doctorate program studying the biology of bacterial viruses and the molecular mechanisms of the phiC31 integrase protein at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Upon relocating to Texas, he studied the molecular mechanisms of a recombinase from a parasitic yeast plasmid and the replication of viruses that infect fungi and primates. He continued this work as a postdoc at the Biofrontiers Institute at Colorado University Boulder, CO. These projects gave  Rowley a broad base of expertise used techniques from molecular biology, biochemistry and evolution, that are applied in his current research projects.