Barbara J. Meyer

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Barbara Jean Meyer (* 1949 ) is an American geneticist and developmental biologist at the University of California, Berkeley . It is regarded as an international leader in the field of structure and function of chromosomes .

Meyer earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Mark Ptashne from Harvard University. in biochemistry and molecular biology. As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with the later Nobel Prize winner Sydney Brenner at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge . Meyer received her first professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 . Since 1997 she has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Meyer uses Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism . She investigates how the sex of these animals is determined via the number of X chromosomes (XX = female, X0 = male) and how the necessary dose compensation for the second X chromosome is regulated via epigenetic processes (including proteins, the homologies to condensins that play a role in meiosis and mitosis ) as well as the mechanisms that ultimately bring about the phenotypic gender differences on the genetic and epigenetic level . Their work provided fundamental insights into the mechanisms of gene regulation .

Barabra J. Meyer has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1995, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2000, and a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2014 . She received the Genetics Society of America Medal in 2010 , the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and both the EB Wilson Medal of the American Society for Cell Biology and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal of the Genetics Society of America in 2018 .

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  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Meyer. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Dr. Barbara J. Meyer. In: search.amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed December 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Sydney Brenner : The 2010 Genetics Society of America Medal: Barbara Meyer . In: Genetics . tape 184 , no. 4 , April 1, 2010, ISSN  1943-2631 , p. 869-870 , doi : 10.1534 / genetics.110.114330 , PMC 2865919 (free full text) - ( genetics.org [accessed December 20, 2018]).
  5. ^ Barbara Jean Meyer to be Honored by the American Academy. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , January 30, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ EB Wilson Medal. In: ascb.org. American Society for Cell Biology , accessed December 20, 2018 .
  7. ^ Genetics Society of America honors Barbara Meyer with 2018 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal. In: genestogenomes.org. Genetics Society of America , February 2, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Barbara J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Barbara Jean; Meyer, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geneticist and developmental biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949