Nina Fedoroff
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff (born April 9, 1942 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American molecular biologist .
Life
Fedoroff was the daughter of Russian immigrants and first learned Russian as a child. She grew up in Fayetteville, New York and Philadelphia , and studied biology and chemistry at Syracuse University and received her PhD in molecular biology from Rockefeller University in 1972 . As a post-doctoral student , she was at the University of California, Los Angeles , where she continued her research on RNA, and then in the embryology department of the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore (laboratory of Donald D. Brown ). There she was involved in pioneering research on DNA sequencing (she and colleagues sequenced a complete gene). In 1978 she became a permanent member of the Carnegie Institution and also taught at Johns Hopkins University . There, in the early 1980s, she succeeded in isolating the transposons in maize genetics that Barbara McClintock had discovered in the 1940s . With her research group, she demonstrated the existence of transposons from maize in other plants, developed molecular genetic labels for transposons and studied their epigenetic regulation.
In 1995 she became Willaman Professor of Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University and was director of the Biotechnology Institute from 1995 to 2002. She also founded the Life Science Consortium (now the Huck Institute of Life Sciences ) as an inter-university research association and was its first director. In 2002 she became an Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University.
In the 2000s she deals with the genetics and molecular biology of the stress response of plants and the molecular basis of epigenetic regulation of gene activity.
In 2012 she became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In 1990 she received the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award and in 2007 the National Medal of Science . In 2003 she became an external member of the Santa Fe Institute . She was on the National Science Board from 2001 under Bill Clinton .
Fonts
- with David Botstein (Ed.): The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992
- Jumping Genes in Corn, Spectrum of Science, August 1984
- Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods, National Academy Press, 2004
- Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution, Wiley 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fedoroff, Nina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fedoroff, Nina Vsevolod (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American molecular biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |