Mary Osborn
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Mary Osborn and her husband, Klaus Weber
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| Born | 1940 (age 76–77) Darlington |
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| Thesis | The Determination and Use of Mutagen Specificity in Bacteria Containing Nonsense Codons (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Person |
| Spouse | Klaus Weber |
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Mary Osborn (born 1940) is an award-winning English cell biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
Osborn was born in Darlington, UK,, Osborn was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Newnham College, Cambridge where she graduated in Mathematics and Physics in 1962. She went on to take a masters in biophysics at Pennsylvania State University in 1963 and a PhD on mutagenesis in nonsense mutations in bacteria, awarded by Pennsylvania State University in 1972 and supervised by Stanley Person.
Osborn did postdoctoral research at Harvard University with Nobel Laureate James Watson. She conducted research at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK before moving to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Osborn and her husband, Klaus Weber, relocated to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in 1975.
Osborn's research has looked at a cell's cytoskeleton and in particular the microtubules of a Eukaryote cell.
Osborn has been awarded several prizes and honours including:
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