Gerald M. Rubin
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| Born | Gerald Mayer Rubin 1950 (age 73–74)[citation needed] |
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| Thesis | Studies on 5.8S ribosomal RNA (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sydney Brenner[1] |
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Gerald Mayer Rubin (born 1950) is an American biologist, notable for pioneering the use of transposable P elements in genetics, and for leading the public project to sequence the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Related to his genomics work, Rubin's lab is notable for development of genetic and genomics tools and studies of signal transduction and gene regulation. Rubin also serves as a Vice President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Executive Director of the Janelia Research Campus.[3][4][5][6]
Biography
Rubin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1950, attending the Boston Latin School. Rubin completed his undergraduate degree in biology at MIT, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the summer.[7][8] He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge,[9] working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1974,[10] for studies on 5.8S ribosomal RNA supervised by Sydney Brenner.[1]
Career
Following his PhD, Rubin did postdoctoral research at Stanford University with David Hogness.[11]
Rubin's first faculty position was at Harvard Medical School, followed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington; in 1983 he accepted an appointment as the John D. MacArthur Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 1987. He is currently the MacArthur Professor of Genetics emeritus, Genomics and Development, in Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
Rubin has taken a leading role in a number of high-profile scientific research projects.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] As the director of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, he led the public effort to sequence Drosophila melanogaster.[18] As Vice President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rubin led the development of HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, an independent biomedical research institute in Virginia.[7][8]
His lab is particularly known for its development of genomics tools, studies of gene regulation, and other genome-wide research.
Awards and honours
Rubin has won numerous awards including:
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- Phi Beta Kappa (1971)
- Phi Lambda Epsilon (1971)
- United States Churchill Foundation Fellow (1971-1973)
- National Science Foundation, predoctoral Fellow (1971-1974)
- Helen Hay Whitney Fellow (1974-1976)
- AAAS-Newcomb Cleveland Prize (with Allan C. Spradling for their papers describing germ-line transformation of Drosophila)[23] (1983)
- Co-winner, Passano Foundation Young Scientist Award (1983)
- American Chemical Society Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (1985)
- Co-winner, National Academy of Sciences U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology (1985)
- Genetics Society of America Medal (1986)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (1987)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
- Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (1992)
- Howard Taylor Ricketts Award from The University of Chicago (1993)
- AAAS-Newcomb Cleveland Prize, AAAS (with Craig Venter, Mark Adams, and Susan Celniker) for his March 24, 2000, review paper on sequencing the Drosophila genome[24] (2000)
- Member, Institute of Medicine (2002)
- George W. Beadle Medal (with Allan C. Spradling)[2] (2003)
- R&D Magazine Scientist of the Year 2006[25]
References
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- ↑ http://www.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct99/sw_sept-oct99_page3.htm HMI's Gerald M. Rubin: The Benefits of Genomics, ScienceWatch, v.10, n.5 (Sept./Oct. 1999)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 UPI, "Gerald Rubin: Science Far Too Conservative", April 20, 2006 (discussing Janelia Farm).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tim Studt, "Architect of the Future: Refocusing on Basic Research", R&D Magazine.
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- ↑ 1983 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
- ↑ Robert Sanders, "UC Berkeley's Gerald Rubin shares AAAS prize with Celera's Craig Venter for sequencing genome of the fruit fly", UC Berkeley Campus News, Feb. 20, 2001.
- ↑ R&D Magazine Scientist of the Year 2006
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- American biologists
- Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Stanford University staff
- Harvard Medical School faculty
- Jewish American scientists
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Living people
- 1950 births
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Foreign Members of the Royal Society
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Biotechnologists
