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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - George M. Holzwarth

EDUCATION:

Wesleyan University, B.A., physics, 1959
Harvard University, M.S., medical sciences, 1961
Harvard University, Ph.D., biophysics, 1964
Florida State University, post-doctoral, molecular biophysics, 1965-67

EMPLOYMENT:

Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics, University of Chicago, 1967-74
Member of the Research Staff, Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory, 1974-83
Lecturer (tenure track), Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, 1983-88
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, 1988-90
Professor, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, 1990-2004
Research Professor, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, 2004

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
Biophysical Society
American Physical Society

AWARDS: Phi Beta Kappa;
Research Career Development Award, NIH, 1971-74


PUBLICATIONS are separately listed.

PATENTS:
Holzwarth, G.M., Naslund, L.A., and Sandvik, E.I. Oil Recovery Using Stabilized Saline, Heat-Treated Heteropolysaccharide Solutions. U.S.Patent 4,425,246, Jan. 10, 1984

Holzwarth, G.M. Oil Recovery Using Modified Hetero- polysaccharides in Buffered Brine. U.S.Patent 4,440,225,
April 3, 1984.

Method and apparatus for gel electrophoresis using two electric fields. C.R.Sabanayagam, G.M.Holzwarth, and E.H.Lai. US patent 5,453,162(9/26/1995). Licensed to BioRad.

 

RECENT SEMINARS and MEETING TALKS

“Molecular Motors in Live Cells: Velocities and Forces”, G. Holzwarth, David B. Hill, Michael J. Plaza, and Keith Bonin, Talk presented at the Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Feb 18, 2004.

“ Velocities and forces of molecular motors in live cells”, Physics Department Seminar, Vanderbilt University, October, 2003.

October, 2003 Vanderbilt University Physics Dept Seminar

February, 2003 Biophysical Society Meeting, San Antonio, Poster

October, 2002 SESAPS meeting, Auburn University

February, 2002 Biophysical Society Meeting, poster

February, 2001 Biophysical Society Meeting, poster

March 22, 2000 APS Meeting, Minneapolis, poster

February 1999 Biophysics Society meeting, Kansas City

November 18, 1998, UNC-Chapel Hill, Biology

October 3, 1998 Biomedical Photonics,Heidelberg(invited)

February 1997, Biophysical Society

September 12, 1996, Virginia Tech.,Physics

March 1996 UNC Greensboro, Physics/Astronomy

March 1996, APS meeting, poster