Position Title
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Enzymes of DNA repair. Identification of plants in forensic situations.
Grad Group Affiliations
- Forensic Science
- Plant Biology
Specialties / Focus
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Environmental and Integrative Biology
- Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Genomics
Courses
- PLB 111 Plant Physiology
- BIS 105 Biomolecules and Metabolism
- BIS 010 General Biology
Honors and Awards
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, 1999
- Division of Biological Sciences Teaching Award, 2002-2003
Professional Societies
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- American Society for Photobiology
- Scandinavian Society for Plant Physiology
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
Degrees
- 1964 BS Biology California Institute of Technology
- 1968 PhD Cell Biology University of California, San Diego
Publications
Ben-Yehuda N, Murphy TM. 2010. Rope from the Christmas Cave: In search of the Talmudic hemp. Archaeological Textiles Newsletter 50: 14-19.
Murphy TM, Ben-Yehuda N, Taylor RE, Southon JR. 2011. Hemp in Ancient Rope and Fabric from the Christmas Cave in Israel: Talmudic Background and DNA Sequence Identification. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2579-2588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.004
Murphy TM and Bola, G. 2013. DNA identification of Salvia divinorum samples. Forensic Science International—Genetics. 7:189-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.04.004
Ng AE, Sandoval E and Murphy TM. 2015. Identification and individualization of Lophophora using DNA analysis of the trnL/trnF region and rbcL gene. Journal of Forensic Sciences. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12936
Adams KR, Johnson KL, and Murphy TM. 2015. Prehistoric Puebloan yucca (Yucca) quids with wild tobacco (Nicotiana) contents: molecular and morphological evidence from Antelope Cave, northwestern Arizona. Journal of Field Archaeology 40:310-324. doi 10.1179/2042458214Y.0000000006
Murphy, TM, and Potter D. 2015. Genetic distinctions among oaks in the University of California, Davis arboretum: contributions to oak phylogeny. http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/research.aspx International Oaks-- scheduled for 2017 issue.
Graham, AF, Adams, KR, Smith, SJ and Murphy, TM. 2017. A New Record of Domesticated Little Barley (Hordeum pusillum Nutt.) in Colorado: Travel, Trade, or Independent Domestication. Kiva (submitted).
Shu J., Schellhorn, H.E., Murphy, T.M. 2006. Stationary phase-induction of G --> T mutations in Escherichia coli. Mutation Research 596:106-112.
Rost, T.R., M.G. Barbour, C.R. Stocking and T.M. Murphy. 2006. Plant Biology, Second Edition. Thomson Brooks/Cole, Belmont, CA, 603 pp.
Dunbar, M., Murphy, T.M. 2009. DNA analysis of natural fiber rope. Journal of Forensic Sciences 54:108-113.
Murphy TM, Belmonte M, Shu S, Britt AB, Hatteroth J 2009 Requirement for Abasic Endonuclease Gene Homologues in Arabidopsis Seed Development. PLoS ONE 4(1): e4297 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004297
Murphy TM, Guo Y-Y. 2010 Antimutagenic specificities of two plant glycosylases, oxoguanine glycosylase and formamidopyrimidine glycosylase, assayed in vitro. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 392:335-339
Murphy TM, Ben-Yehuda N, Taylor RE, Southon JR. 2011. Hemp in Ancient Rope and Fabric from the Christmas Cave in Israel: Talmudic Background and DNA Sequence Identification. Journal of Archaeological Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.004
Murphy TM, Bola G. 2012. DNA identification of Salvia divinorum samples. Forensie Science International—Genetics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.04.004