Wendy Bickmore

Wendy Bickmore
Residence Edinburgh
Citizenship British
Nationality British
Fields Genetics and Genomics
Institutions
Alma mater University of Oxford

Wendy Bickmore is a British genome biologist and Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, The MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 2015 she became President of The Genetics Society.

Life

She obtained an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from University of Oxford and her PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

Works

Her work has focussed on how DNA, chromosomes and specific genes are organized and packaged in the cells nucleus,[1] how this process is regulated during development to facilitate the expression of genes, and how aberrant genome organization is linked to disease.[2] Professor Bickmore is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/interviews/interview/1000180/
  2. ↑ http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/w.bickmore.html
  3. ↑ http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-wendy-bickmore/


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