Peter Tattersall, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Genetics, at Yale University School of Medicine. He has spent his entire caareer studying many aspects of the replication of mammalian parvoviruses, which are amongst the smallest known viruses in the biosphere. His research group has used a combination of genetics and immunochemistry, supported by collaborations with structural biology and immunobiology groups, to delineate the mechanisms by which these tiny, single-stranded DNA-containing viruses invade target cells, enveigle the host cell to express the viral genes, replicate their unique, linear viral DNA genome, assemble viral capsids, then package and export progeny virions. This work has provided much of the current text book copy on the biology of the autonomously replicating parvoviruses. Dr. Tattersall received his Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, in 1968, and his doctorate in Molecular Virology from University College, London, in 1971, for work performed at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer UK). He is best reacherd via email.
I have been on the Medical School Faculty for 38 years as a professor of adult and pediatric cardiac surgery. I am a member of the Medical School admissions committee, as well as the hospital ethics committee. I attended Columbia College and Harvard Medical School, and trained in general and cardiac surgery in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Boston Children’s Hospital.
I will be happy to advise students regarding pre-med studies, medical school applications, as well as any projects they may be interested in regarding bioethics.