Julie Ahringer
| Julie Ahringer | |
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| Born | Julie Ann Ahringer |
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Developmental Biology Genomics Genetics |
| Institutions |
Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| 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 |
| Known for |
RNA interference Caenorhabditis elegans |
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| Spouse | Richard Durbin (m. 1996) |
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Website www |
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Developmental Biology Genomics
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.
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.
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.
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