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Biomedical Hands-On Laboratory Faculty
Kerry S. Bloom is a Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research takes a combined genetic, molecular, and cytological approach to gain insights into the segregation process during cell division. Using yeast as a model organism, Dr. Bloom and his colleagues build artificial chromosomes to study how they work and introduce chromosomes into living cells, providing a means of assessing their functionality. Through these studies Dr. Bloom and his colleagues are starting to gain significant insights into how chromosomes are organized and the mechanisms responsible for chromosome distribution during the life of a cell
Dr. Bloom has been a course director of the biomedical hands-on laboratory section of the MBL Science Journalism Program since 2001. He earned his B.S. from Tulane University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1980. In 1982 he completed a post-doctoral appointment at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Bloom became an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1982, an Associate Professor in 1987, and has been Professor since 1994. He first came to the MBL in 1985 as an Instructor in the Physiology Course, was the Assistant Director of the Course from 1989 to 1990, and Director from 1997 to 1998. Dr. Bloom became a member of the MBL’s Science Council in 1996, serving as its Chair of from 1998 to 2000. He was recently appointed Editor of the Image and Video Library for the American Society of Cell Biology and currently serves as Associate Editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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