George Pieczenik   Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology Lipman Hall, 76 Lipman Drive New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525 (732) 932-9763 x217 Fax: (732) 932-8965 piecze@rci.rutgers.edu Associate Professor of Biochemistry A.B. (Physics and Chemistry), Harvard College, 1965 M.S. (Radiation Physics), University of Miami, 1967 Ph.D. (Biology), New York University, 1972 Theory of genotypic selection, nucleotide sequence analysis, combinatorial phage display, identification and characterization of non-pathogenic strains of HIV, temporal analysis of the land color phenomena My research goals have been to identify nucleotide sequence constraints that can explain the evolution of the genetic code, genome structure, relationships between phenotypes and genotype and viral pathogenesis. A new research goal is de-convoluting the temporal components involved in perceiving Land Color and understanding this relationship to other perceptual phenomena with complementary components. Recent publications Pieczenik, G. (1994). The theory of genotypic selection: predicting the direction of evolution as a consequence of G:U base pairing and the existence of non-pathogenic strains of HIV-1. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International 32:879-887. Scolaro, M., Durham, R., and Pieczenik, G. (1991). Potential molecular competitor for HIV. The Lancet 337:731. Pieczenik, G. (1980). Predicting coding function from nucleotide sequence, or survival of "fitness of tRNA". Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77:3539-43. Crick, F.H.C., Brenner, S., Klug, A. and Pieczenik, G. (1976). A speculation on the origin of protein synthesis. Origin of Life 7:389-97.