Lynn Cooley | |
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Academic background | |
Education | Connecticut College (BA) University of Texas (PhD) |
Thesis | (1984) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biology |
Lynn Cooley is the C. N. H. Long Professor of Genetics and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular,Cellular,and Developmental Biology,Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,and Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs at Yale University. [1]
Cooley earned her PhD at the University of Texas in 1984,her BA in Zoology at Connecticut College in 1976,and held a postdoctoral appointment at the Carnegie Institution. [2] She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. [3] Cooley became Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2014,and Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs in 2021. [4]
Cooley is a developmental cell biologist who works on gametogenesis:germline cells and intercellular bridges that connect them while they become sperm or eggs. [1]
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