Dr. Joseph Frank Spencer MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
626 W 2nd St Duluth MN, 55806About
Dr. Joseph Spencer is a psychiatrist practicing in Duluth, MN. Dr. Spencer is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Spencer diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Spencer may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Spencer treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
University of Minnesota / Twin Cities Campus 1965
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dynamics of metabolism and its interactions with gene expression during sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- Non-conventional yeasts.
- Glycerol and arabitol production by an intergeneric hybrid, PB2, obtained by protoplast fusion between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Torulaspora delbrueckii.
- Production of polyhydric alcohols by osmophilic yeasts.
- Polyhydric alcohol production by osmophilic yeasts: effect of oxygen tension and inorganic phosphate concentration.
- Essential amino acids in microorganisms.
- Protein and fat content of some mushrooms grown in submerged culture.
- Tricholoma nudum as a source of microbiological protein.
- Transfer of genes for utilization of starch (sta2) and melibiose (mel) to industrial strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by single-chromosome transfer, using a kar1 mutant as vector.
- On the synthesis in vivo of long-chain unsaturated fatty acids.
- The biosynthesis of erythritol and glycerol by Torulopsis magnoliae. Studies with C14-labelled glucose.
- Biochemistry of the Ustilaginales. 14. Bioassimilation of L-erythrulose into 4-0-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-erythritol.
- Biochemistry of the Ustilaginales. XIII. Observations on the structure and biosynthesis of 4-0-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-erythritol.
- The use of snail digestive juice in isolation of ascospores from inoperculate asci.
- Studies on the formation of D-arabitol by osmophilic yeasts.
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