Citizenship United States Education Ph.D. | Name Adelaide Carpenter | |
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Born June 24, 1944 (age 79) , Georgia, United States ( 1944-06-24 ) Known for Discovery of the recombination nodule Alma mater North Carolina State University | ||
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Adelaide T. C. Carpenter is a fruit fly geneticist at the University of Cambridge.
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Biography
Carpenter was born 24 June 1944, in Georgia, United States and grew up in North Carolina. In the 1970s, whilst at the University of Washington, she was one of the numerous graduate students mentored by Larry Sandler. In 1976, she obtained a faculty position at the University of California, San Diego. In 1989, after becoming full professor, she took a second sabbatical in the United Kingdom.
Scientific work
In 1975, Carpenter discovered and published a paper on the recombination nodule, an organelle that mediates meiotic recombination.
References
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