Shirleen Roeder
Shirleen Roeder is a geneticist and was Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and HHMI investigator[1] in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department at Yale University before her retirement in 2012; in 2018 she is Professor Emeritus there.[2] She is noted for identifying and characterizing the yeast genes that regulate the process of meiosis with particular emphasis on synapsis.[3] She discovered two distinct processes that regulate the recombination between chromosomes in meiosis and also a process inhibiting recombination.[4] Shirleen Roeder was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.[4] She was chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[5] and elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2010.[3]
References
- ^ ""G. Shirleen Roeder, PhD"". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ ""G. Shirleen Roeder, PhD"". Yale University. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ a b ""AAM Fellows G. Shirleen Roeder"". American Academy of Microbiology. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ a b ""G Shirleen Roeder, Yale University"". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Luna, Regina (September 1, 2010). ""Yale Scientists Awarded AAAS Fellowship"". Yale Scientific. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
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