Julie Ahringer
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Julie Ann Ahringer FMedSci FRS is an American/British Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Director of the Gurdon Institute and a member of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.[9][10][8][11][12] She leads a research lab investigating the control of gene expression.[9]
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Born | Julie Ann Ahringer |
Nationality | American |
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Known for | RNA interference[1] Caenorhabditis elegans[2][3][4][5][6] |
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Institutions | Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Thesis | Post-transcriptional regulation of fem-3, a sex-determining gene of Caenorhabditis elegans (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Judith Kimble |
Other academic advisors | John Graham White |
Website | www |
Her laboratory carried out the first systematic inactivation of the majority of genes in an animal through constructing and screening a genome-wide RNA interference library for the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.[13] Research in Ahringer's lab investigates the control of gene expression and genome architecture in development, using C. elegans as a model system.[14]