Fields Developmental Biology Name Julie Ahringer | Spouse Richard M. Durbin | |
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Born Julie Ann Ahringer Institutions Gurdon InstituteUniversity of CambridgeLaboratory of Molecular BiologyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Thesis Posttranscriptional regulation offem-3, a sex-determining gene of Caenorhabditis elegans (1991) Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison Institution University of Cambridge, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||
Everson lecture julie ahringer
Julie Ann Ahringer FMedSci is a Professor of Genetics and Genomics, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. She leads a research lab investigating the control of gene expression.
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- Everson lecture julie ahringer
- Gurdon institute meet julie ahringer
- Education
- Research
- Honours and awards
- Personal life
- Interview with julie ahringer about the embo meeting 2012
- References
Gurdon institute meet julie ahringer
Education
Ahringer was educated at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry in 1984. She completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison while working with Judith Kimble. She carried out postdoctoral research at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge with John Graham White.
Research
Ahringer became a group leader in the Department of Genetics in Cambridge in 1996, then moved to the Gurdon Institute in 1998. Her laboratory carried out the first systematic inactivation of the majority of genes in any animal by constructing and screening a genome-wide RNAi library for Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). Ahringer's current research group studies the regulation of chromatin structure and function in gene expression and genome organization using the nematode C. elegans as a model to understand development and disease. The Ahringer Lab research is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Honours and awards
Ahringer was elected to the EMBO Membership in 2003 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007. She delivered the Francis Crick lecture prize of the Royal Society in 2004. She is the member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Medical Research Council (MRC) along with many other eminent scientists.
Personal life
Ahringer married Richard Durbin in 1996, with whom she has two children.