Joseph R Ecker | |
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| Alma mater | The College of New Jersey Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center |
| Known for | Plant biology and epigenetics |
| Awards | 2015 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2011 George W. Beadle Award, Genetics Society of America Contents |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Hyman |
| Website | https://www.salk.edu/scientist/joseph-ecker/ |
Joseph R. Ecker is an American plant biologist and molecular biologist. [1] He is Professor of Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and Director of the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He holds the Salk International Council Chair in Genetics.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, San Diego. [2]
Ecker completed a BA degree in biology in 1978 at The College of New Jersey. [3] He then joined the laboratory of virologist Dr. Richard Hyman and studied herpes viruses at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He joined Ronald W. Davis's lab at Stanford University. In 1987, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Plant Science Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. [3] He also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2017.
