Gisela T. Storz

Gisela T. Storz, 2012

Gisela "Gigi" Therese Storz (* 1962 ) is an American molecular biologist at the National Institutes of Health . She heads the Environmental Gene Regulation department at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in Bethesda , Maryland .

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Storz was born in the USA as the daughter of two German scientists. She grew up in Colorado and studied at the University of Colorado , where she received her first degree. She earned a Ph.D. in 1988 from Bruce Nathan Ames at the University of California, Berkeley. , as a postdoctoral fellow with Sankar Adhya at the National Cancer Institute and with Fred M. Ausubel at Massachusetts General Hospital . She has been at NICHD since 1991.

Gisela Storz first investigated redox- sensitive transcription factors , including OxyR in E. coli and Yap1 in S. cerevisiae . Then she turned to microRNAs . Among other things, she was able to contribute significantly to the elucidation of the structure and function of the RNA chaperone Hfq . More recent work deals with small proteins with a size of less than 50 amino acids .

In 2000 Storz received the Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award from the American Society for Microbiology . In 2011 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2012 to the National Academy of Sciences . According to the Scopus database , it has an h-index of 73 (as of March 2020) .

Gisela Storz has been married to researcher Carl Wu since 1993, and the couple have three children.

literature

• Karen Hopkin: The Science of Stress . In: The Scientist . October 31, 2008 ( the-scientist.com ).
• Jennifer Patterson-West: Gisela Storz, Ph.D .: Discovering Big Secrets in Small Genes . In: NIH Intramural Research Program (Ed.): The NIH Catalyst . December 2017 ( nih.gov ).
• NICHD (Ed.): Spotlight: Women in Science: Gisela Storz Asks the Tough Questions . April 18, 2019 ( nih.gov ).

Web links

Commons : Gisela Storz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gisela Storz Lab: Section on Environmental Gene Regulation at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (nichd.nih.gov)
• Biographies, publications and academic family tree of Gisela Storz at academictree.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eli Lilly and Company Research Award at asm.org ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Gisela T. Storz. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , February 2015, accessed March 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Gisela Storz. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed March 20, 2020 .