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Jack Donald Keene

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke Box 3020, Durham, NC 27710
207 Research Drive, 414 Jones Box 3020, Durham, NC 27717

Service to the Profession


Board Member - Transdisciplinary Centers Advisory Committee · 2013 - 2018 Committee Service March of Dimes, New York
Organizer - RNA Regulatory Mechanisms Implicated in Human Diseases, both Rare and Common · 2010 Event/Organization Administration RNA Stability Group, Asheville, NC
Member - Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation · 2009 - 2015 Other Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC
Chair, Board of Scientific Counselors - National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2013 Committee Service National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Reviewer - Systems Biology of Complex Diseases · 2006 Committee Service Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany

Helmholtz Association initiative to fund multiple German institutions in systems biology

Co-organizer - Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression · 2005 - 2006 Event/Organization Administration Cold Spring Harbor Meetings, Two sequential years at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
Member - National Selection and Advisory Board · 1991 - 1996 Professional Development PEW Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences, Philadelphia, PA

Service to Duke


Provost's Committee on Named Professorships (University) · 2003 - 2006 Committee Service Duke University, Duke Campus
Director of Basic Science (Center) · 1995 - 2003 Committee Service Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke Campus
Departmental Chair . Administrative · 1992 - 2002 Event/Organization Administration Duke University Medical Center, Duke Campus