G. Shirleen Roeder | |
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Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Recombination, maturation and packaging of the bacteriophage T7 chromosome (1978) |
Glenna Shirleen Roeder is a geneticist known for identifying and characterizing the yeast genes that regulate the process of meiosis with particular emphasis on synapsis.
Roeder has a B.Sc. from Dalhousie University (1973) [1] [2] and earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Toronto. [3] Following her Ph.D. she was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University before moving to the faculty at Yale University in 1981. [4] In 2001 she was named the Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department at Yale University. [4] Roeder retired in 2012 [1] and, as of 2021, she is Professor Emeritus at Yale University. [5]
Roeder used budding yeast as a model system to examine meiosis. She discovered the Zip1 protein, [6] and discovered two distinct processes that regulate the recombination between chromosomes in meiosis and also a process inhibiting recombination. [7]
In 1984, Roeder received a Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation. [8] She was named an HHMI investigator in 1997, [9] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009. [7] In 2010, she was chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [10] and elected to the American Academy of Microbiology. [11] [12]