Catherine Dulac
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Catherine Dulac is a French–American biologist.[2] She is the Higgins Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where she served as department chair from 2007 to 2013.[3] She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was born in 1963 in France. She came to the United States for her postdoctoral study in 1991.
Catherine Dulac | |
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Born | 1963[1] |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Known for | Mammalian pheromones |
Awards | Richard Lounsbery Award Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences |
Scientific career | |
Academic advisors | Richard Axel |
Dulac has done extensive research on the molecular biology of olfactory signaling in mammals, particularly including pheromones,[4] and downstream brain circuits controlling sex-specific behaviors.[5] She developed a novel screening strategy based on screening cDNA libraries from single neurons and a new method of cloning genes from single neurons. As a postdoc, Dulac discovered the first family of mammalian pheromone receptors when working in Nobel laureate Richard Axel's laboratory at Columbia University.[6]