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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Evolutionary Cell and Developmental Biology (Zoology) |
| Keywords | oogenesis, polarity, mRNA localization, hnRNPI |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Philadelphia |
| Institution | University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) |
| Institute | Department of Cell and Development Biology |
Host during sponsorship
| Dr. Anne Ephrussi | Differentiation Programme, Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie (EMBL), Heidelberg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2006 |
Programme(s)
| 2006 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Mary Mullins is an outstanding developmental geneticist, who is forging the field of the maternal control of vertebrate development through genetic studies in the zebrafish. Through her forward genetic screens, she has identified the first genetically-defined factors acting to establish the vertebrate animal-vegetal axis, which prefigures the embryonic anterior-posterior axis. This new direction of her research, together with her continuing studies in elucidating BMP signaling function in patterning the dorsal-ventral axis, has made her a leader in the field of vertebrate axis formation and patterning. |