Linda Partridge

Linda Partridge, 2014

Linda Partridge on May 28, 2013 on BBC Radio 4

Dame Linda Partridge , DBE (born March 18, 1950 in Bath ) is an English geneticist who studies the biology and genetics of aging ( biogerontology ) and age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's . Patridge is Weldon Professor of Biostatistics at the Institute for Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London (UCL), Director of the UCL Institute for Healthy Aging and Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging .

education

Patridge first studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells . From 1968 to 1971 she studied at St Anne's College, University of Oxford , where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in zoology. From 1971 to 1974 she studied with the Christopher Welch Fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Oxford University and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 . Her doctoral thesis was on "Behavioral aspects of the ecology of some paridae". From 1974 to 1976 she studied with a NERC scholarship as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of York .

Career

From 1976 to 1993 Partridge worked at the University of Edinburgh . From 1976 she was a University Demonstrator, then from 1978 University Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, from 1987 Reader and finally from 1992 Professor of Evolutionary Biology. During her time at the University of Edinburgh, Partridge was a Nuffield Research Fellow from 1985–1986 and a Darwin Trust Research Fellow 1992–1993.

In 1994 Partridge became Director at the Center for Ecology and Evolution and Weldon Professor of Biometry at University College London . She was a NERC Research Professor from 1997–2002 and a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Professorial Fellow from 2002–2007 .

Linda Partridge has been Director at the Institute of Healthy Aging at University College London since 2007, Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne since 2008 and Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Cologne since 2011 .

Milestones

In an interview for the BBSRC, Linda Partridge names five key milestones in biotechnology in which she was involved.

• 1981 Discovery that men, like women, bear reproductive costs that require a trade-off between reproductive rate and survival.
• 1995 Discovery that molecules in the seminal fluid of the male fruit fly Drosophila caused the death of females that frequently mated.
• 2001 Discovery that the increased life span due to decreased activity of the insulin / IGF signal path, which was first discovered in nematodes , was evolutionarily conserved in Drosophila , which was later also demonstrated in mice.
• 2003 Discovery that Drosophila have no food memory, so their death rate depended solely on their current diet, not what they previously ate.
• 2009 Evidence that the balance of important amino acids in the diet explains the response to dietary restrictions.

Awards

Partridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and was awarded the CBE in 2003 . In 2004 she was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences and in 2008 she received the prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society of London . In 2009 she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) and has since had the addition of " Dame ". At the same time she received the Croonian lectureship from the Royal Society.

In March 2009, the UKRC (UK Resource Center) announced that Partridge would be recognized as one of six women with outstanding achievements in science, engineering and technology to participate in the year's Women of Outstanding Achievement Photographic Exhibition. She was elected as an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering.

Partridge received Honorary Degrees (DSc) from the University of Bath (2011), the University of Oxford (2011) and the University of Brighton (2012).

Life

Linda Partridge's parents are Ida Tucker and George Albert Partridge. She is married to the Welsh neuropsychologist, neuroanatomist and psychophysicist Michel J. Morgan , who, like her, is a professor at University College London. She lives near the Barbican Center in London.

Web links

• Profile on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging
• Linda Partridge's homepage at University College London

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linda Partridge. (No longer available online.) At: academic.research.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Michelle Martin: Linda Partridge, The Life Scientific. In: BBC Radio May 4 , 2013, accessed on September 11, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Linda Partridge: Behavioral aspects of the ecology of some paridae . University of Oxford. Department of Zoology, 1974 (English, solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk [accessed September 11, 2016]).
4. ^ Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging. Department Partrifge. Curriculum vitae Lind Partridge. (No longer available online.) In: www.age.mpg.de. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Arran Frood: Great British bioscience pioneers - Professor Dame Linda Partridge. In: www.bbsrc.ac.uk. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), May 16, 2014, accessed September 12, 2016 . 
6. ^ Order of the British Empire. (Civil Division) DBE In: The London Gazette . Supplement: 59090, June 13, 2009, p. 7 ( thegazette.co.uk ).
7. ^ The Croonian Prize Lecture: The new biology of aging. royalsociety.org, May 26, 2009, accessed September 11, 2016 . 
8. ^ Professor Linda Partridge: Woman of Outstanding Achievement. University College London , March 11, 2009, accessed September 11, 2016 . 
9. ^ American Academy Announces 2010 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , April 19, 2010, accessed September 11, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Advidory Council. In: Campaign for Science & Engineering in the UK. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 12, 2016 (English). 
11. ^ Honorary graduates, 2010 to present. University of Bath , accessed September 11, 2016 . 
12. ^ St Anne's College, Oxford> About the College> Emeritus, Honorary, & Supernumerary and Senior Research Fellows. st-annes.ox.ac.uk, accessed on September 11, 2016 . 
13. ^ Honorary graduates. University of Brighton , accessed September 11, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Linda Partridge. In: Prabook. Retrieved September 12, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Jeremy Taylor: A Life in the Day: The secret to long life? I'm working on it. In: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk. The Sunday Times , August 25, 2016, accessed September 12, 2016 .