Professor of Biology; PhD, UC Berkeley
Dr. Beemon began working on retroviral genomes as a graduate student of Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley. As a postdoc at the Salk Institute, she initiated study of the product of the viral src oncogene, the first tyrosine kinase. She began at JHU as an Assistant Professor of Biology in 1981. She continued study of retroviruses, focusing on regulation of RNA splicing, export from the nucleus, and avoidance of nonsense-mediated degradation (NMD). She also studied oncogenesis by avian viruses without oncogenes; these integrate into host DNA and activate nearby host genes, including a long non-coding RNA in the TERT promoter.
Current Interests: Mentoring.