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| Born in Cologne, Germany, Ruth Lehmann came to fly development initially in Gerold Schubiger's lab at the University of Washington, Seattle and then while undertaking her Diploma thesis in the laboratory of the late Jose Campos Ortega at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she described the role of neurogenic genes in Drosophila. She completed her doctoral thesis in 1985 in the laboratory of Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, where she participated in the identification of maternal effect genes that organize the embryonic axis in Drosophila. Following her postdoctoral training in Tübingen and at the MRC in Cambridge, UK in the laboratory of the late Mike Wilcox, she joined the Whitehead Institute and the faculty of MIT in 1988. Her lab's molecular characterization of nanos, pumilio and oskar revealed that RNA localization within a cell is tightly linked to translational regulation. In 1996, Dr. Lehmann moved to the Skirball Institute at NYU School of Medicine where she is currently an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Julius Raynes Professor of Developmental Genetics. This is addition to being director of the Developmental Genetics Graduate Program and the Helen and Kimmel Stem Cell Center at NYU, deputy editor in chief of the Journal Development, and a member of the American Academy of Arts Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences. Her lab uses genetic, molecular and high resolution imaging approaches in studying germ cell specification, migration and survival in the embryo and germ line stem cell maintenance in adult Drosophila. |
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