Margaret Gardel | |
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Academic background | |
Education | Sc.B., Brown University PhD., 2004, Harvard University |
Thesis | Elasticity of F-actin networks (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | David A. Weitz |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Margaret Lise Gardel is an American biophysicist. She is the Horace B. Horton Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago.
After Gardel earned her bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Brown University,she was accepted into physics graduate programs at Harvard University. [1] While completing her PhD,she became interested in the ways actin deforms in response to external mechanical stress. She was encouraged by Clare Waterman and various cell biologists to leave her postdoc position and join a research team at Scripps Research Institute. [2]
She was later accepted as a Pappalardo Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct independent research in the areas of biophysics. [3]
Gardel joined the Department of Physics faculty at the University of Chicago in 2007,after completing her post-doctoral work. [4] Shortly after she began teaching,Gardel received a Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. [5] The next year,Gardel was part of a research program examining "the sudden and dramatic transformations that occur in processes where small-scale structural rearrangements result in rapid and far-reaching outcomes." [6] She was also awarded a Sloan research fellowships. [7]
By 2012,Gardel was the recipient of the 2012 Early Excellence Award from the American Asthma Foundation. [8] The following year,Gardel and Jennifer Ross,a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,received a four-year,$800,000 INSPIRE grant from the National Science Foundation to study the fundamental physical laws that govern the behavior of cellular materials. [9]
In 2018,Gardel was appointed the Horace B. Horton Professor in the Department of Physics and the College. [10] During that academic year,Gardel was part of a research study that recreated cell division outside of a cell. [11]
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
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