Citizenship British Name Wendy Bickmore | Nationality British | |
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Institutions University of EdinburghMRC Human Genetics Unit | ||
Residence Edinburgh, United Kingdom | ||
In conversation with prof wendy bickmore at imcsb glasgow
Wendy Anne Bickmore (born 1961) FRS FMedSci FRSE is a British genome biologist, Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh and President of The Genetics Society since 2015.
Contents
- In conversation with prof wendy bickmore at imcsb glasgow
- Education
- Research and career
- Awards and honours
- References
Education
Bickmore was educated at Chichester High School For Girls obtained an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and her PhD from the University of Edinburgh for research analysing nucleic acid sequences from the Y chromosome in humans supervised by Howard Cooke and Adrian Bird.
Research and career
Her work has focussed on how DNA, chromosomes and specific genes are organised and packaged in the cell nucleus, how this process is regulated during development to facilitate the expression of genes, and how aberrant genome organisation is linked to disease.
She has supervised and mentored numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in her laboratory.
Awards and honours
Bickmore was awarded EMBO Membership in 2001, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2005 and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2005 (FMedSci). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.