Name Gerald Rubin | ||
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Institutions Janelia Farm Research CampusHoward Hughes Medical InstituteStanford UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley Notable awards Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1983)NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1985)Genetics Society of America Medal (1986)George W. Beadle Award (2003) Awards NAS Award in Molecular Biology | ||
Gerald Mayer Rubin (born 1950) is an American biologist, notable for pioneering the use of transposable P elements in genetics, and for leading the public project to sequence the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Related to his genomics work, Rubin's lab is notable for development of genomics tools and whole-genome studies of gene regulation. Rubin also serves as Vice President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Executive Director of the Janelia Research Campus.
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Biography
Rubin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1950, attending the Boston Latin School. Rubin completed his undergraduate degree in biology at MIT, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the summer. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, funded by the MRC in 1974, for studies on 5.8S ribosomal RNA supervised by Sydney Brenner.
Career
Following his PhD, Rubin did postdoctoral research at Stanford University with David Hogness.
Rubin's first faculty position was at Harvard Medical School, followed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington; in 1983 he accepted a faculty appointment at the University of California, Berkeley. He was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 1987. He is currently the MacArthur Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, in Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
Rubin has taken a leading role in a number of high-profile scientific research projects. As the director of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, he led the public effort to sequence Drosophila melanogaster. As Vice President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rubin led the development of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus, an independent biomedical research institute in Virginia.
His lab is particularly known for its development of genomics tools, studies of gene regulation, and other genome-wide research.
Awards and honours
Rubin has won numerous awards including: