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Dr laura landweber epigenetics rewriting the information in dna
Laura Faye Landweber is an American evolutionary biologist. As of 2016, she is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and of biological sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. She specializes in RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance and molecular evolution.
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Biography
Landweber received her AB in molecular biology, graduating summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1989. She received her MA and PhD from Harvard University in 1991 and 1993. Her doctoral dissertation was "RNA editing and the evolution of mitochondrial DNA in kinetoplastid protozoa."
In 1994, Landweber became a faculty member of Princeton University at the age of 26.
In a 2000 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on biocomputers, Landweber solved chess's knights problem, where one determines how many non-attacking knights can be placed on a chessboard, using a test tube of RNA.