Geraldine Seydoux
Geraldine Seydoux (* 1964 in Paris ) is a French - American developmental biologist , molecular biologist and geneticist at Johns Hopkins University .
Seydoux uses Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism . It deals with the mechanisms by which cells in the earliest ontogenesis decide whether they belong to the germline or develop into a somatic cell . She was able to show that the global inhibition of the transcription of mRNA is an important first step. The first asymmetries of the fertilized egg cell , which are important for the development of specific cell types , are introduced through specific interactions between proteins of the egg cell and the sperm . Seydoux's more recent work deals with members of a protein family that belong to the framework of RNA granules and with new applications of the CRISPR / Cas method .
After attending school in France and Italy , Geraldine Seydoux went to the United States in 1982, where she received a Bachelor of Biochemistry from the University of Maine in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1991. in molecular biology . As a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington before becoming an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in 1995 . In 2000 she became an associate professor and in 2005 she was given a full professorship. She has been Vice Dean for Basic Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 2017 and (as of 2019) holds a professorship for Molecular Biology and Genetics. Her professorship is named Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery . Seydoux has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) since 2005 .
In 2001 Sedoux received a MacArthur Fellowship . In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2016 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Seydoux Lab at Johns Hopkins University (jhmi.edu)
- Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins Medicine (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geraldine Seydoux, PhD. In: hhmi.org. Howard Hughes Medical Institute , accessed February 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Geraldine Seydoux. In: macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation , accessed February 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Geraldine Seydoux. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , accessed February 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Geraldine Seydoux. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed February 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seydoux, Geraldine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-American developmental biologist, molecular biologist and geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |