Catherine Peichel | |
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Thesis | Genetic and Molecular Analysis of the Mouse Ulnaless Locus (1991) |
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Discipline | Biology |
Sub-discipline | Evolutionary biology,Genetics |
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Catherine Peichel is an American geneticist who works at the Division Evolutionary Ecology department of the University of Bern. Her research focuses on the genetic bases of speciation,adaptation,and phenotypic diversity,as well as the evolution of sex chromosomes. Much of her research uses three-spined stickleback fish ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) as models,both in the lab and in wild populations. [1] She was awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences in 2003 for her significant contributions in developing the stickleback as a model system for evolutionary genetics. [2] [3]
Peichel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, [4] and the National Academy of Sciences in 2023. [5]
Gertrude "Trudy"Belle Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist,who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs. This new method focused on understanding the target of the drug rather than simply using trial-and-error. Her work led to the creation of the anti-retroviral drug AZT,which was the first drug widely used against AIDS. Her well known works also include the development of the first immunosuppressive drug,azathioprine,used to fight rejection in organ transplants,and the first successful antiviral drug,acyclovir (ACV),used in the treatment of herpes infection.
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon is a British developmental biologist,best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.
Beth Alison Shapiro is an American evolutionary molecular biologist,associate director for conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute,and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. In March 2024,Shapiro became chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences. She also taught in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California,Santa Cruz.
Philippa "Pippa" Marrack, FRS is an English immunologist and academic,based in the United States,best known for her research and discoveries pertaining to T cells. Marrack is the Ida and Cecil Green Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Research at National Jewish Health and a distinguished professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado Denver.
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg is an American physician and public health administrator,who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.
Brian J. Druker,M.D. is a physician-scientist at Oregon Health &Science University (OHSU),in Portland,Oregon. He is the chief executive officer of OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute,JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research,Associate Dean for Oncology in the OHSU School of Medicine,and professor of medicine.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is an American non-profit medical research organization that provides funding for biomedical research,STEM education,and areas of career development for scientists. Since 1970,it has been headquartered in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.
Sarah Perin Otto is a theoretical biologist,Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Experimental Evolution,and is currently a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia. From 2008-2016,she was the director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. Otto was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. In 2015 the American Society of Naturalists gave her the Sewall Wright Award for fundamental contributions to the unification of biology. In 2021,she was awarded the Darwin–Wallace Medal for contributing major advances to the mathematical theory of evolution.
Zhijian "James" Chen is a Chinese-American biochemist and professor in the department of molecular biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is best known for his discovery of mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell,work for which he received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Paula Therese Hammond is an Institute Professor and the Vice Provost for Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was the first woman and person of color appointed as head of the Chemical Engineering department. Her laboratory designs polymers and nanoparticles for drug delivery and energy-related applications including batteries and fuel cells.
CatherineJ. Murphy is an American chemist and materials scientist,and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC,Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials,specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,National Academy of Sciences,and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Akiko Iwasaki is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular,Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. She is also a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research interests include innate immunity,autophagy,inflammasomes,sexually transmitted infections,herpes simplex virus,human papillomavirus,respiratory virus infections,influenza infection,T cell immunity,commensal bacteria,COVID-19,and long COVID.
Danielle "Hopi" Elisabeth Hoekstra is an evolutionary biologist working at Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts,where she is Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her lab uses natural populations of rodents to study the genetic basis of adaptation. She is the C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences and the Xiaomeng Tong and Yu Chen Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. She is also the Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a Harvard College Professor. In 2014,Hoekstra became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. In 2016,she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences,and in 2017,she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hoekstra became the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in August 2023.
Catherine (Cathy) Drennan is an American biochemist and crystallographer. She is the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Biochemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Janet Rideout is an organic chemist and one of the scientists who discovered that azidothymidine (AZT) could be used as an antiretroviral agent to treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). She also played a key role in the development of acyclovir,the first effective treatment for herpes simplex virus.
Rachel Green is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on ribosomes and their function in translation. Green has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.
Susan Kaech is an American immunologist. Kaech is a professor and director of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. She holds the NOMIS Foundation Chair. Her research focuses on the formation of memory T cells,T cell metabolism,and cancer immunotherapy.
Catherine J. Price is a British neuroscientist and academic. She is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London.
Tamara Lea Doering is an American microbiologist known for her research in Cryptococcus neoformans,a pathogenic fungus,as well as earlier work on GPI anchors. She is currently the Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine.
Katerina Heran Darwin is a Korean-American microbiologist and professor of microbiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.. Her research interests include the bacterial proteasome and the antimicrobial effects of host-produced effectors including nitric oxide,copper,and aldehydes