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Robert Dale Slocum is an American biologist and botanist. He is a professor of biology in the Center for Natural Sciences at Goucher College. His research focuses on plant physiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology.

Education

Slocum completed a Bachelor of Arts at University of Maine. In 1977, Slocum earned a Master of Science from Ohio State University. His master's thesis was titled Effects of SO₂ and pH on the ultrastructure of the Trebouxia phycobiont of the pollution-sensitive lichen Parmelia caperata (L.) Ach. He earned a doctorate from University of Texas at Austin in 1981. His dissertation is titled Studies on the localization of phytochrome and calcium in light-and-gravity-stimulated plants.

Career

Slocum researches the physiology of plants, adaptation to environmental stresses, nitrogen metabolism, and the molecular biology and biotechnology of plants. Slocum was a professor in the Department of Botany at Williams College. In 1991, he published Biochemistry and Physiology of Polyamines in Plants. Slocum joined the faculty at Goucher College in 1992. He is a Professor of Biology in the Center for Natural Sciences at Goucher. In 2005, Slocum received a 3-year grant for $340,000 from the National Science Foundation. With the grant, Slocum and Christopher T. Brown of the National Human Genome Research Institute conducted research on the regulation of pyrimidine metabolism in plants with a team of undergraduates. From 2011 to 2012, Slocum was a rotating program director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

Selected works

Books

• Biochemistry and physiology of polyamines in plants. Slocum, Robert D., Flores, Hector E. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1991. ISBN 0849368650. OCLC 24794433.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

Articles

• Slocum, Robert D.; Kaur-Sawhney, Ravindar; Galston, Arthur W. (December 1984). "The physiology and biochemistry of polyamines in plants". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 235 (2): 283–303. doi:10.1016/0003-9861(84)90201-7. ISSN 0003-9861. PMID 6393877.
• Slocum, Robert D.; Galston, Arthur (October 1985). "Changes in Polyamine Biosynthesis Associated with Postfertilization Growth and Development in Tobacco Ovary Tissues". Plant Physiology. 79 (2): 336–343. doi:10.1104/pp.79.2.336. ISSN 0032-0889. PMC 1074885. PMID 11540835.
• Slocum, Robert D. (August 2005). "Genes, enzymes and regulation of arginine biosynthesis in plants". Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 43 (8): 729–745. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2005.06.007. ISSN 0981-9428. PMID 16122935.
• Slocum, Robert D.; Scholl, Jacob D. (Fall 2013). "NSF Support of Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs)" (PDF). Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. 34 (1): 31–40. ISSN 1072-5830.

References

1. ^ "Goucher College 2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalogue". Goucher College.
2. Slocum, Robert Dale (1977). Effects of SO₂ and pH on the ultrastructure of the Trebouxia phycobiont of the pollution-sensitive lichen Parmelia caperata (L.) Ach (Thesis). OCLC 3815640.
3. Slocum, Robert Dale (1981). Studies on the localization of phytochrome and calcium in light-and-gravity-stimulated plants (Thesis). OCLC 8489965.
4. "Robert Slocum". Goucher College. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
5. Biochemistry and physiology of polyamines in plants. Slocum, Robert D., Flores, Hector E. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1991. ISBN 0849368650. OCLC 24794433.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
6. "Center for Natural Sciences Faculty". Goucher College. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
7. "Robert D. Slocum". The Baltimore Sun. October 28, 2005. Retrieved May 10, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
8. Slocum, Robert D.; Scholl, Jacob D. (Fall 2013). "NSF Support of Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs)" (PDF). Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly.

External links

• Robert Slocum publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 20th-century American botanists
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American botanists
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers
• American physiologists
• Goucher College faculty and staff
• Living people
• Ohio State University alumni
• University of Maine alumni
• University of Texas at Austin alumni
• Williams College faculty