Professor
Thomas J. Silhavy
Princeton University
Geneticist; Molecular biologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Microbiology and Immunology
Elected
2005
Thomas J. Silhavy is the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Silhavy is a bacterial geneticist who has made fundamental contributions to several different research fields. He is best known for his work on protein secretion, membrane biogenesis, and signal transduction. Using Escherichia coli as a model system, his lab was the first to isolate signal sequence mutations, to identify a component of cellular protein secretion machinery, and an integral membrane component of the outer membrane assembly machinery. His lab was also the first to identify and characterize a two-component regulatory system. He is the author of more than 250 research articles and three books .
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