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Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses (Current)
Commonwealth of Virginia

Board Certifications
American Board of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology
American Board of Pathology, Hematology

Education

Postgraduate Medical Education
Fellowship in Hematopathology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Richmond, Virginia 2005 - 2006

Post-doctoral Fellowship
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 2001 - 2005

Residency in Anatomic Pathology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina 1998 - 2001

Medical Education
MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia 1990 - 1992 and 1997 - 1998

Graduate Education
PhD, Biophysics, University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Charlottesville, Virginia 1992 - 1997

Undergraduate Education
BS, Chemistry, College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia 1986 - 1990

Awards

American Society of Hematology Junior Faculty Scholar Award, 2008-2011

National Institutes of Health, NIGMS, PRAT Fellowship, 2001-2004

Professional Organizations

American Society of Hematology, Member
College of American Pathologists, Member
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Member

Recent Publications

Basu, P., Lung, T.K., Lemsaddek, W., Sargent, T.G., Williams, D.C. Jr., Basu, M., Redmond, L.C., Lingrel, J.B., Haar, J.L., & Lloyd, J.A.: EKLF and KLF2 have compensatory roles in embryonic b-globin gene expression and primitive erythropoiesis. Blood, 110:3417-3425, 2007.

Williams, D.C. Jr, Massey, G.V., Russell, E.C., Riley, R.S., & Ben-Ezra, J. (2006). Translocation positive acute myeloid leukemia associated with valproic acid therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer, In press.

Suh, J-Y, Cai, M, Williams, D.C. Jr., & Clore, G.M. (2006). Solution structure of a post-transition state analog of the phosphotransfer reaction between A and B cytoplasmic domains of the mannitol transporter II mannitol of the Escherichia coli phosphotransferase system. J Biol Chem 281, 8939-8949.

Williams, D.C. Jr ., Lee, J.Y., Cai, M., Bewley, C.A., & Clore, G.M. (2005). Crystal structures of the HIV-1 inhibitory cyanobacterial protein MVL free and bound to Man 3GlcNAc 2: Structural basis for specificity and high-affinity binding to the core pentasaccharide from N-linked oligomannoside. J Biol Chem 280, 29269-29276.

Williams, D.C. Jr ., Cai, M., Suh, J.Y., Peterkofsky, A., & Clore, G.M. (2005). Solution NMR structure of the 48-kDa IIA Mannose-HPr complex of the Escherichia coli mannose phosphotransferase system. J Biol Chem 280, 20775-20784.

Tang, C., Williams, D.C., Jr., Ghirlando, R., & Clore, G.M. (2005). Solution structure of enzyme IIA Chitobiose from the N,N’-diacetylchitobiose branch of the Escherichia coli phosphotransferase system. J Biol Chem 280, 11770-11780.

Miclet, E., Williams, D.C., Jr., Clore, G.M., Boisbouvier, J., & Bax, A. (2004). Relaxation-optimized NMR spectroscopy of methylene groups in proteins and nucleic acids. J Am Chem Soc 126, 10560-10570.

Williams, D.C. Jr ., Cai, M., & Clore, G.M. (2004). Molecular basis for synergistic transcriptional activation by Oct1 and Sox2 revealed from the solution structure of the 42 kDa Oct1·Sox2·Hoxb1-DNA ternary transcription factor complex. J Biol Chem 279, 1449-1457.

Cai *. M., Williams*, D.C. Jr., Wang, G., Peterkofsky, A., & Clore, G.M. (2003). Solution structure of the phosphoryl transfer complex between the signal transduction protein IIA Glucose and the cytoplasmic domain of the glucose transporter IICB Glucose of the Escherichia coli phosphotransferase system. J Biol Chem 278, 25191-25206.
* contributed equally.

Gong, J.Z., Williams, D.C. Jr., Liu, K., Jones, C. (2002). Fine-needle aspiration in non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evaluation of cell size by cytomorphology and flow cytometry. Am J Clin Path 117, 880-888.

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Updated January 14, 2008