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Alan Darvill, CCRC co-director, is appointed to Regents Professorship

By Phil Williams
phil@franklin.uga.edu

Alan Darvill of UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and of

Alan Darvill

plant biology, has been named a Regents Professor. The appointment has been approved by the board of regents.
Regents Professorships are granted to outstanding faculty members for an initial period of three years and are renewable for a second three-year period based on recommendations.
Awardees receive a $10,000 permanent increase in salary, in addition to the merit raise in the year of initial appointment. They also receive a yearly fund of $5,000 in support of their scholarship.
“This is a great honor for me,” says Darvill. “I am very fortunate to be associated with superb colleagues and staff at the CCRC and the department of biochemistry and molecular biology.”
Darvill, who is co-director of CCRC, received his bachelor of science degree in plant biology in 1973 from Wolverhampton University (England) and his Ph.D. in plant physiology in 1976 from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
He founded CCRC with Peter Albersheim in September 1985. Together they co-direct the facility as well as their combined research teams. Darvill is also co-director of the Department of Energy-funded Center for Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates and administrative director of the National Institutes of Health-supported Resource Center for Biomedical Complex Carbohydrates at the CCRC.
Darvill has served on the editorial board of Glycobiology since 1992, and he served on the board for Plant Journal for Cell and Molecular Biology from 1991 to 2001.
In 1994-95 he was chairman of the Carbohydrate Division of the American Chemical Society and he was appointed a member in 1993 and chairman in 1996 of the Martin Gibbs Medal Committee of the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
Darvill received the outstanding faculty award of the UGA chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society in 1995.
Darvill’s research has focused on characterization of the non-cellulosic polysaccharides that constitute the primary cell walls of plants. His research group has emphasized structural studies of five non-cellulosic polysaccharides and has characterized the structures of these polysaccharides isolated from dicot, monocot and gymnosperm cell walls.
“We have come to realize that these polysaccharides play very important roles in the functioning of the cell walls,” says Darvill. “They contribute in many ways to the growth and development of plants.”

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