Michael Rosbash
| Michael Rosbash | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 7, 1944 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Genetics Chronobiology |
| Institutions |
Brandeis University Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Edinburgh |
Michael Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990. In 1998, they discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then determining the genetics behind the mutation. Rosbash was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Michael Rosbash was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His parents were immigrants who had fled Nazi Germany in 1938. His father was a cantor, which, in Judaism, is a person who leads the congregation in prayer. Rosbash’s family moved to Boston when he was two years old, and he has been an avid Red Sox fan ever since.
Initially, Rosbash was interested in mathematics but an undergraduate biology course at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a summer of working in Norman Davidson’s lab steered him towards biological research. Rosbash graduated from Caltech in 1965 with a degree in chemistry, spent a year at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris on the Fulbright Scholarship, and obtained a doctoral degree in biophysics in 1970 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After spending three years on a postdoctoral degree in genetics at the University of Edinburgh, Rosbash joined the Brandeis University faculty in 1974.
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