Julie Ahringer
| Dr. Julie Ahringer | |
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| Born | Julie Ann Ahringer |
| Fields | Developmental Biology Genetics |
| Institutions | Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Thesis | Post-transcriptional regulation of fem-3, a sex-determining gene of Caenorhabditis elegans (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Judith Kimble |
| Known for | RNA interference[1] Caenorhabditis elegans[2][3][4][5][6] |
| Notable awards | EMBO member (2003) FMedSci (2007) Crick Lecture (2004) |
| Spouse | Richard Durbin[7] |
| Website www2 www |
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Dr. Julie Ann Ahringer FMedSci is a Professor of Genetics and Genomics, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Gurdon Institute and Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.[8][9][10][11] She leads a research lab investigating the control of gene expression.
Education
Ahringer completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison while working with Judith Kimble.[12][13][14] She carried out postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge with John White.[15]
Research
Ahringer became a group leader in the Department of Genetics in Cambridge in 1996, then moved to the Gurdon Institute in 1998. Her laboratory carried out the first systematic inactivation of the majority of genes in any animal by constructing and screening a genome-wide RNAi library for Caenorhabditis elegans. Ahringer's current research group studies the regulation of chromatin structure and function in gene expression and genome organization using the nematode C. elegans as a model to understand development and disease. The Ahringer Lab research is funded by the Wellcome Trust.[16]
Honours and awards
Ahringer was elected a member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2003 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007, and she delivered the Francis Crick lecture prize of the Royal Society in 2004.[17] She is the member of the Scientific Advisory Board along with many other eminent scientists[18]
Personal life
Ahringer is married to Richard Durbin, with whom she has two children.[7]
References
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- ↑ http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/~ahringerlab
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