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               *Thus, the following materials are ONLY PART of a complete proposal for promotion, whereas promotion is based on the ENTIRE proposal.   Therefore, it should not be assumed that a record comparable to that below will necessarily result in promotion, or that a record not comparable to that below will fail to result in promotion.  The Departmental Chair is likely to be the best source of advice as to whether promotion is feasible and, when it is not, what additional activity may result in qualification for promotion.

               *This document has been prepared as a tool for use by associate professors in the Division of the Biological Sciences.  Other individuals who may find it informative are Department Chairmen, Section Heads, Committee Chairmen, senior faculty and potential recruits.  Its intent is to help guide individuals and their departments as they think about promotion to Professor.  This document is not intended to list the elements that every promotion proposal will be expected to address.  The following information is presented for information purposes only and is not intended to create any contract or agreement, and its contents are subject to addition, deletion, and change without prior notice.

Name:

Benjamin S. Glick, Ph.D.

 

 

Preferred email address:

bsglick@uchicago.edu

 

URL for web page :

https://departmentinfo.uchicago.edu/faculty.phtml?faculty_id=66

 

Department of Primary Appointment:

Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

 

Secondary appointments:

Committee on Genetics

Committee on Cell Physiology

Institute for Biophysical Dynamics

 

Present rank:

Associate Professor

 

Present track:

Tenure

 

Proposed rank:

PROFESSOR

 

Proposed track:

RESEARCH SCHOLAR (TENURE)

LAY SUMMARY:

Dr. GlickÕs primary contributions have been:

1) formulating and elegantly testing a new model for how a key cellular organelle, the Golgi apparatus, functions. This model, the Òcisternal maturationÓ model, and Dr. GlickÕs experimental support for it overthrows a previous, firmly held dogma in the field.  The Golgi apparatus is responsible for the transport and modification of proteins at the cell surface or secreted by the cell. Defects in Golgi transport lead to a number of human diseases.

2) development of a new model organism, Pichia, as a system in which to experimentally examine the function of the Golgi apparatus and a related cellular organelle, the endoplasmic reticulum.

3) development of new types of Ôfluorescent proteinsÕ, proteins that have the ability to produce light at specific wavelengths. In the past decade, the use of fluorescent proteins has revolutionized the study of dynamic events, such as protein trafficking, in living cells. Using a highly systematic, collaborative approach Dr. Glick has developed several new fluorescent protein variants that are being widely used by researchers and are commercially available.

4) development of an improvement in confocal microscopy, a widely used method in cell biology, that greatly increases the time resolution for imaging rapid events in living cells.  This method was crucial to Dr. GlickÕs experimental support for the cisternal maturation model of Golgi development.

 

Dr. Glick has made important contributions to essential courses essential to the undergraduate and graduate curricula, and has consistently received outstanding teaching evaluations. He has also received teaching awards for both undergraduate (Quantrell) and graduate education. He has mentored a number of graduate students in his own laboratory, and is currently director of the largest graduate training program in the Biological Sciences. Administratively, Dr. Glick has served on a number of Divisional (COROAP), cluster (Graduate admissions) and departmental (faculty search) committees.

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1999)

Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2002)

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2003)

 

REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING GRANTING AGENCIES (since January 1995)

National Science Foundation (U.S.):  Member of Cellular Organization review panel,

               2000 – 2002

NIH/NIDDK:  Program project review committee, University of Iowa, December

2000; Program project review committee, Massachusetts General Hospital,

January 2002.

NIH:  Member, Cell Structure and Function study section, as of 2007

Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Following Agencies:

               National Institutes of Health (CDF-2 review panel, Feb. 2002, Feb. 2004; CSF

                              review panel, June 2005)

               U.S. National Science Foundation (Cellular Organization review panel)

               Swiss National Science Foundation

               California Sea Grant College

               Diabetes Research and Training Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

               Human Frontier Science Program

               The Wellcome Trust

               U.S. Department of Energy

               Dutch Earth & Life Sciences Council

              United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

               Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)

               German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

               Netherlands Genomics Initiative

 

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

American Society for Cell Biology

 

REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS (since January 1995)

Biochemistry

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Biophysical Journal

BioTechniques

Cell

Cell and Tissue Research

Chemical Physics Letters

Chemistry and Biology

Current Biology

EMBO Journal

EMBO Reports

Experimental Cell Research

FASEB Journal

FEBS Letters

Gene

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Journal of Cell Biology

Journal of Cell Science

Journal of Molecular Biology

Microscopy Research and Technique

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Nature

Nature Biotechnology

Nature Cell Biology

Nature Methods

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

PLoS Biology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.

Protein Science

Science

Traffic

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Trends in Biotechnology

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Organizer of Midwest Yeast Conference, 1997 and 2001

Co-organizer, Minisymposium on ÒOrganelle Biogenesis and InheritanceÓ,

American Society for Cell Biology Meeting, 2002

Co-organizer, Keystone Symposium on ÒGolgi Apparatus and Secretory Pathway

               of Eukaryotic CellsÓ, 2004

Program Committee Member, 2004 Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology

Co-chair, Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology, 2005

Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology, 2007

 

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial Board, Molecular Biology of the Cell, February - December 2002

Co-editor, ÒMembranes and OrganellesÓ issue of Current Opinion in Cell Biology,

               August 2002

Associate Editor, Molecular Biology of the Cell, since January 2003

Editorial Board, Traffic, since December 2004

 

ADVISORY COMMITTEES

LSM 510 META Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Facility, Johns Hopkins University, since April 2004

Boulder Lab for 3D EM of Cells, University of Colorado at Boulder, since June 2005

PRESENTATIONS

INVITED LECTURES (since January 1995)

Midwest Yeast Meeting, Chicago, IL                                                                             May 1995

Current Topics in Gene Expression Meeting, San Diego, CA                          March 1996

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL                                                              April 1996

Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Molecular Chaperones                            May 1996

Midwest Conference on Molecular Chaperones, Chicago, IL                         January 1997

Pew Scholars Annual Meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico                                   March 1998

Golgi Centennial Conference, Pavia, Italy                                                                  September 1998

Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL                                                                            October 1998

SFB Meeting on Intracellular Trafficking, Gšttingen, Germany                     November 1998

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH                                                 April 1999

University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL                                                                   May 1999

Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology                   July 1999

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL                                                                      September 1999

British Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Bristol, England                                  September 1999

Midwest Connective Tissue Workshop, Chicago, IL                                            November 1999

American Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Washington, DC                        December 1999

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI                                                                      January 2000

Washington University, St. Louis, MO                                                                         January 2000

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN                                                                             February 2000

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD                                                                  March 2000

Steenbock Symposium on Intracellular Traffic, Madison, WI                         August 2000

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany                   September 2000

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                                                                        November 2000

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH                                                                          January 2001

Duke University, Durham, NC                                                                                         January 2001

BSD-HHMI Saturday Seminars in Biology Series, Chicago, IL                       January 2001

McGill University, Montreal, Canada                                                                           February 2001

Pew Scholars Annual Meeting, Playa Herradura, Costa Rica                        March 2001

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY                                                                                          April 2001

Earlham College, Richmond, IN                                                                                       April 2001

University of Illinois, Chicago, IL                                                                                     May 2001

International Specialized Symposium on Yeasts, Lviv, Ukraine                    August 2001

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO                                                                             October 2001

American Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Washington, DC                        December 2001

University of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan                                                                           January 2002

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan                                                                                  January 2002

University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan                                                                                   January 2002

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY                                                      February 2002

Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH                                                                            February 2002

Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology

     Meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada                                                                               March 2002

EURESCO Conference (ÒExocytosisÓ), Tomar, Portugal                                   April 2002

Yale University, New Haven, CT                                                                                     May 2002

Integrated Genomics, Chicago, IL                                                                                   June 2002

Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, Madison, WI                        August 2002

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA                                                                                             October 2002

University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA                                              March 2003

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ              March 2003

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA                                                             March 2003

German Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Bonn, Germany                              March 2003

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting,

     San Diego, CA                                                                                                                      April 2003

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA                                                          April 2003

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO                                                                    May 2003

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada                                             May 2003

University of Washington, Seattle, WA                                                                        June 2003

Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology                   July 2003

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,

     Dresden, Germany                                                                                                             September 2003

Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting, Chicago, IL                                                              November 2003

Keystone Symposium: Golgi Apparatus and Secretory Pathway 

     of Eukaryotic Cells                                                                                                             January 2004

Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL  February 2004

University of Freiburg, Germany                                                                                      February 2004

University of Gšttingen, Germany                                                                                  March 2004

Cologne Spring Meeting 2004, Cologne, Germany                                                March 2004

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR                        March 2004

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY                                                                        April 2004

Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA                                                               April 2004

BD Biosciences Clontech, Palo Alto, CA                                                                      July 2004

Gordon Research Conference on Plant and Fungal Cytoskeleton                August 2004

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI                                                                      January 2005

Michigan  State University, East Lansing, MI                                                           January 2005

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX                      February 2005

Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology

     Meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada                                                                               March 2005

Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore                                                          April 2005

Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology                   July 2005

Benedictine College, Lisle, IL                                                                                              March 2006

Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, MD                                                                              March 2006

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD                                                                  April 2006

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY                                                                        April 2006

State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY                                                     May 2006

Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Cell Biology, Tilton, NH        July 2006

Rice University, Houston, TX                                                                                             August 2006

British Society for Cell Biology Meeting (ÒImaging Membrane

     DynamicsÓ), Egham, Surrey, England                                                                   September 2006

LMCB, University College London, England                                                            September 2006

University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands                                                   September 2006

Ringberg Colloquium on Self-Organization and Morphogenesis in

     Biological Systems, Tegernsee, Germany                                                               December 2006

Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland                                                          December 2006

Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD                                          March 2007

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                                                                        March 2007

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA                                                             March 2007

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA                                                 March 2007

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting,

     Washington, DC                                                                                                                  April 2007

Protein Biotechnology Course, Heraklion, Crete, Greece                                   May 2007

Midwest Yeast Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                 September 2007

Invited Lectures by Researchers in My Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Yeast Biology (Olivia Rossanese)         August 1999

Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL (Adam Hammond)                                   March 2000

Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Yeast Biology (Jon Soderholm)              August 2001

FASEB Experimental Biology Meeting (Pamela Connerly)                                  April 2002

American Society for Cell Biology Meeting (Brooke Bevis)                                 December 2002

XXI International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular

     Biology (Daniel Strongin)                                                                                                 July 2003

Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Yeast Biology (Catherine Reinke)         August 2003

Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting (Catherine Reinke)               July 2004

Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Yeast Biology (Eugene Losev

     and Elisabeth Montegna)                                                                                                   August 2005

UNACCEPTED INVITATIONS

I have not kept track of unaccepted invitations.  The number is relatively small, probably averaging about one per year. 

 

For example, I accepted an invitation to speak in a symposium at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ) in December 2005, but subsequently declined because my wife was due to give birth in January 2006.