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After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Gary Ruvkun went on to Harvard University where he was awarded his Ph.D in 1982. His subsequent post-doctoral work under Bob Horvitz at MIT and Walter Gilbert at Harvard focused on using C.elegans to examine the heterochronic genes that control the temporal dimension of development, which would eventually lead to the discovery of the first microRNAs genes and their targets by the Ambros and Ruvkun labs.
In 1985 Dr.Ruvkun was appointed as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, subsequently going on to be appointed associate professor before finally taking up his current position as Professor of Genetics at the same institution.
Dr. Ruvkun's laboratory continues to use functional genomic and genetic strategies to systematically discover the components of the RNAi and microRNA pathways in C.elegans, and have recently identified a number of genes that positively or negatively regulate RNAi and microRNA pathways. The Ruvkun laboratory has also been developing PCR-based detection strategies to discover divergent microbial organisms. |
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