Jeremy Nathans
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| Jeremy Nathans | |
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| Born | July 31, 1958 New York City |
| Residence | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Fields | genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Alma mater | MIT (B.S.), Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hogness |
Jeremy Nathans is a professor molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University, in addition to a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He is noted for first isolating and characterizing the opsin genes contributing to human color vision.[1]
References [edit]
- ^ Nathans J, Thomas D, Hogness DS (April 1986). "Molecular genetics of human color vision: the genes encoding blue, green, and red pigments". Science 232 (4747): 193–202. doi:10.1126/science.2937147. PMID 2937147.
