Douglas Cavener

Douglas Cavener
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Georgia Brown University
Awards	Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize (1981) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2014)
Academic career
Institutions	Vanderbilt University (1982–2000) Pennsylvania State University (2000–)

Douglas R. Cavener is an American biologist, a Professor of Biology and the former Verne M. Willaman Dean Professor of Science at Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, and also a published author, being widely cited and widely held in libraries.

Awards and honors

• 1981 Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize
• 2014 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Select publications

• D R Cavener (25 February 1987). "Comparison of the consensus sequence flanking translational start sites in Drosophila and vertebrates". Nucleic Acids Research. 15 (4): 1353–61. doi:10.1093/NAR/15.4.1353. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 340553. PMID 3822832. Wikidata Q24629553.
• Francesca Fallarino; Ursula Grohmann; Sylvaine You; et al. (1 June 2006). "The combined effects of tryptophan starvation and tryptophan catabolites down-regulate T cell receptor zeta-chain and induce a regulatory phenotype in naive T cells". Journal of Immunology. 176 (11): 6752–6761. doi:10.4049/JIMMUNOL.176.11.6752. ISSN 0022-1767. PMID 16709834. Wikidata Q56902123.
• Douglas R. Cavener; Stuart C. Ray (1 June 1991). "Eukaryotic start and stop translation sites". Nucleic Acids Research. 19 (12): 3185–3192. doi:10.1093/NAR/19.12.3185. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 328309. PMID 1905801. Wikidata Q40504517.