Position Title
Professor Emeritus
Position Title
Professor Emeritus
- Plant Biology
Bio
Research Interests
Enzymes of DNA repair. Identification of plants in forensic situations.
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations
Education and Degree(s)
- 1964 B.S. in Biology, California Institute of Technology
- 1968 Ph.D. in 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