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Dr. Betsy Wilson, Associate Professor and Departmental Chair. Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to UNCA, Dr. Wilson was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and genetics in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she was a staff fellow in the genetics laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She has been at UNCA since 1985. Her research interests are focused on DNA replication and repair. She has been investigating two genes from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, RAD18 and POL1, whose products are involved in yeast DNA metabolism. The investigation of these genes and their products involves application of techniques from biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.