Anne M. Villeneuve
Anne-Marie Villeneuve (* 1959 ) is an American developmental biologist and geneticist at Stanford University .
She is best known for her work on the distribution of chromosomes during meiosis , in which haploid sperm and egg cells are genetically different from the respective diploid mother cell . Villeneuve and co-workers established Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for investigations into the dynamics of chromosomes and genetic recombination during meiosis. According to the Scopus database , Villeneuve (as of December 2019) has an h-index of 40.
Villeneuve earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a thesis on gender determination and dose compensation. in biology . The title of the dissertation was The role of sdc-1 in sex determination and dosage compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans . She has been researching at Stanford University since 1989, where she received a professorship in 1995. She is also a research professor with the American Cancer Society .
Villeneuve was secretary of the Genetics Society of America from 2013 to 2015 . In 2016 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2017 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 2019 Villeneuve received the Genetics Society of America Medal .
Web links
- Villeneuve Lab at Stanford University (stanford.eud)
Individual evidence
- ^ Villeneuve, Anne M. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ^ Past and Present GSA Officers. In: genetics-gsa.org. Genetics Society of America , accessed February 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter V. (PDF; 234 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed February 1, 2019 .
- ^ Anne M. Villeneuve. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed February 1, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Villeneuve, Anne M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villeneuve, Anne; Villeneuve, Anne-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American developmental biologist and geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |