Timothy Nilsen
Timothy Nilsen is Professor Emeritus at Case Western University. He earned a B.S. in Biology from Fordham University; an M.A. in Developmental Biology from City College, CUNY; and his PhD from SUNY Albany in Molecular Biology. He was also a postdoc in the molecular biology department at SUNY Albany.
Dr. Nilsen was a Boroughs Wellcome Scholar in Molecular Parasitology from 1990-1995. In 2006, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences. He is also Editor of the RNA Journal.
The Nilsen lab is currently studying several aspects of post-transcriptional gene regulation: identification and mechanistic characterization of splicing silencers; mechanism of trans-splicing in a parasitic nematode; mechanism whereby miRNAs regulate translation; and mechanism by which the exon junction complex enhances translation.