Geraldine Seydoux obtained her Ph.D. in 1991 from Princeton University, and went on to complete her post-doctoral training at the Carnegie Institution of Washington before joining the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1995. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2001, Dr. Seydoux was appointed an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2005.
Dr. Seydoux's main interests lie in studying the mechanisms that lead to the establishment of the germ line during C. elegans embryogenesis, and she has been successful in establishing that global inhibition of mRNA transcription is an essential first step in this process. Most recently, her lab has also been investigating the role of protein degradation in the transition from oocyte-to-embryo. |
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