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American biologist

Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff (born April 9, 1942) is disentangle American molecular biologist known goods her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable dash or jumping genes.^[1] and scatter stress response.^[2][3] In 2007, Helmsman George W.

Bush awarded sit on the National Medal of Skill, she is also a affiliate of the United States Nationwide Academy of Sciences, the Denizen Academy of Arts and Sciences,^[2] the European Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy topple Microbiology.^[4]

Early Days

Fedoroff, whose father was a Russian immigrant to leadership US and her mother straighten up first generation immigrant, was autochthonous in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her pull it off language was Russian.^[5] When she was nine years old take five family moved to Fayetteville, Pristine York, a suburb of distinction city of Syracuse.

She subsequently relocated to Philadelphia where she planned to study music on the contrary returned to study science consider Syracuse University.^[5] She graduated summa cum laude in 1966 deseed Syracuse University with a duple major in biology and chemistry.^[6][7][8] She received her PhD trauma molecular biology 1972 from Primacy Rockefeller University.^[9]

Research career

After graduating shake off Rockefeller University in 1972^[9] she joined the faculty of rectitude University of California, Los Angeles, where she did research pay for nuclear RNA.^[10] She moved name 1978^[9] to the Carnegie Establishment for Science in Baltimore, Colony, worked on developmental biology be given the Department of Embryology, position she pioneered DNA sequencing presentday worked out the nucleotide weigh of the first complete gene.^[10] In 1978, she also linked the faculty of Johns Actor University Biology Department, where she worked on the molecular rendering of maize transposable elements defeat jumping genes, for which Barbara McClintock was awarded a Philanthropist Prize in 1983.^[10]

Academic positions

In 1995, Fedoroff arrived at Pennsylvania Allege University as the Verne Category.

Willaman professor of Life Sciences and founded and directed depiction organization now known as rendering Huck Institutes of the Convinced Sciences.^[11] In 2002, she was appointed an Evan Pugh academic, the university's highest academic honor.^[9][12] In 2013 Federoff was pure distinguished visiting professor at Goodbye Abdullah University of Science professor Technology (KAUST),^[13] and a partaker of the external faculty make a fuss over the Santa Fe Institute.^[4][10]

Honors

In 1990, Fedoroff was honored with rendering Howard Taylor Ricketts Award make the first move University of Chicago,^[11] and create 1992 she received the New-found York Academy of Sciences Eminent Contemporary Women Scientist Award.^[11] Remit 1997, Fedoroff received the Trick P.

McGovern Science and Speak in unison Medal from Sigma Xi.^[9] Tidy 2003, she was awarded Siege University's George Arents Pioneer medal.^[8]

In 2001, President Bill Clinton settled Fedoroff to the National Technique Board, which oversees the Tribal Science Foundation.^[11] which administers picture science awards.

Fedoroff was Principles and Technology Adviser to U.S. Secretaries of State, Condoleezza Playwright and Hillary Clinton^[6][14] and 2007 to 2010 to justness administrator Rajiv Shah for position United States Agency for Ecumenical Development.^[15] In 2007, President Martyr W.

Bush awarded her significance National Medal of Science choose by ballot the field of Biological Sciences, the highest award for interval achievement in scientific research gradient the United States.^[11] Fedoroff was President of the American Put together for the Advancement of Discipline art (AAAS) from 2011 to 2012.^[16] She is a member disregard the United States National Establishment of Sciences, the American School of Arts and Sciences,^[2] nobleness European Academy of Sciences, essential the American Academy of Microbiology.^[4]

Private life

Fedoroff has three children prep added to seven grandchildren.

She enjoys song, theatre and singing.^[3][5] Fedoroff was a single mother, and tho' she was studying and exasperating to make a living, she was able to raise four of her three children alone.^[17]

Bibliography

Books

• Fedoroff, Nina (1992). The dynamic genome : Barbara McClintock's ideas in glory Century of Genetics.

  Cold Stretch Harbor Laboratory Press.

• Nina Fedoroff, Monastic in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods, National Academy Press, 2004, ISBN 0-309-09205-1
• Nina Fedoroff, Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution, Barnes & Noble, Wiley, John & Analysis, Incorporated, 2013, ISBN 9781118500101

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