Arnold Bendich

Arnie Bendich completed his doctoral degree in Microbiology at the University of Washington in 1969. His dissertation involved biochemical and phylogenetic studies of plant nucleic acids. For the next year, while on a postdoctorate at the Plant Research Lab of Michigan State University, he examined DNA uptake by cultured tobacco cells. In 1970 he joined the Department of Botany, University of Washington as a plant molecular biologist. He currently works on (i) the structure and maintenance of chromosomal DNA molecules in plastids and mitochondria and (ii) the introducton of transgenes into plastids and mitochondria. Although no longer teaching lecture classes, he is engaged full time in research and accepts graduate students for thesis research projects.