Michael P. Kladde PhD

Associate Professor Mike Kladde earned his Ph.D. degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology with Dr. Jack Gorski at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991 on estrogenic regulation of gene expression. He then pursued postdoctoral work on chromatin structure and function in the laboratory of Dr. Robert T. Simpson at the National Institutes of Health and then at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kladde took a position at Texas A&M University in 1998 and rose to the rank of Associate Professor continuing his studies on activation of gene expression in the context of chromatin. He joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UF in 2007. Dr. Kladde has served on NIH study section and as a reviewer for NSF and numerous journals in the field.