Dr. Richard Sherwin

Genetics
K. Arndt
T.-L. Ashman
G. Campbell
D. Chapman
G. Hatfull
J. Hildebrand
L. Jacobson
S. Kalisz
J. Martens
V. Oke
W. Saunders
B. Stronach
S. Tonsor
R. Wood

Microbiology
G. Hatfull
R. Hendrix
J. Lawrence
V. Oke
J. Pipas
M. Popa
I. Campbell
R.L. Duda
S. Godfrey

Molecular Biology
K. Arndt
J. Franzen
P. Grabowski
G. Hatfull
R. Hendrix
L. Jen-Jacobson
J. Martens
C. Peebles
J. Pipas
J. Rosenberg
A. Schwacha
C. Walsh

Plant Biology
T.-L. Ashman
W. Carson
S. Kalisz
V. Oke
C. Partanen
S. Tonsor
B. Traw

Science Education
A. Bledsoe
K. Curto
L. Daniels
S. Godfrey
N. Kaufmann
C. LaFave
J. Newman
E. Polinko
M. Popa
L. Roberts
T. Seiflein
R. Sherwin
A. Slinskey Legg

Structural Biology
M. Grabe
J. Hempel
R. Hendrix
L. Jen-Jacobson
J. Rosenberg
A. VanDemark

Former Faculty

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Science Education; Genetics; Animal Physiology

Lecturer

Dr. Sherwin received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Illinois and joined the Department in 1997.

Currently, Dr. Sherwin is not accepting graduate students in his laboratory. Dr. Sherwin is not accepting undergraduate researchers, and does sponsor students in other laboratories.

Professional Interests - Publications - Contact Information - Lab Personnel

Professional Interests of Richard Sherwin

My first love is the education of the undergraduate student, and I have been committed to and involved in such for the last 30 years at several institutions. I received by Ph.D. in populational and evolutionary genetics, but have taught a wide variety of biology courses since then.

I have spent several summers recently doing research in human cytogenetics in the Department of Human Genetics at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. I collaborated during a sabbatical year with several physicians doing research on the relationship between overexpression of p53 protein and outcome in pediatric brain tumor patients.

More recently I worked for a year in the Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. We analyzed primarily bone marrow specimens from patients for chromosomal abnormalities. I also performed many different kinds of FISH (Fluorescent In Situ Hybridizations) analyses on patient's cells for chromosomal abnormalities.

Dr. Sherwin's schedule for Fall 2003 can be found here as a PDF file.

Publication Archive
6 Citations
2 Abstracts
2 PDFs

Recent Publications of Richard Sherwin

Pollack, I.F., R.L. Hamilton, S.D. Finkelstein, J.W. Campbell, A.J. Martinez, R.N. Sherwin, M.E. Bozik, and S.M. Gollin (1997) The relationship between mutations and overexpression of p53 and prognosis in malignant gliomas of childhood. Cancer Res. 57:304-309

Sankary, S., R.N. Sherwin, P.S. Malone, I Janeka, L. Barnes, P.D. Storto, and S.M. Gollin (1993) Clonal chromosomal aberrations in a leiomyosarcoma of the sinonasal tract. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 65:21-26 (PDF Reprint: 811 kb)

Sherwin, R.N. (1975) Selection for mating activity in two chromosomal arrangements of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Evolution 29:519-530

Sherwin, R.N., and E.B. Spiess (1973) Chromosomal control of mating activity in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 70:459-461 (PDF Reprint: 533 kb)

Spiess, E.B., R.N. Sherwin, and T. Yacher (1971) Mating propensity of gene arrangement carriers from a redwood population of Drosophila persimilis. Evolution 25:461-470

Spiess, E.B., and R.N. Sherwin (1970) Quantitative variation and chromosomal arrangements in a population of Drosophila persimilis from the redwoods. Evolution 24:495

How to Contact Richard Sherwin

US Mail
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Biological Sciences
L-3 Clapp Hall
4249 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone, FAX, Internet
Office : (412) 624-4269
Lab :
FAX : (412) 624-4759
Email : dsherwin+@pitt.edu
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