Laura Landweber
Laura Faye Landweber is an American evolutionary biologist. She is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. She specializes in RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance and molecular evolution.
Biography
Landweber received her AB in molecular biology, graduating summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1989. She received her MA and PhD from Harvard University in 1991 and 1993. Her doctoral dissertation was "RNA editing and the evolution of mitochondrial DNA in kinetoplastid protozoa."[1]
In 1994, Landweber became a faculty member of Princeton University at the age of 26.
In a 2000 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on biocomputers, Landweber solved chess's knights problem, where one determines how many non-attacking knights can be placed on a chessboard, using a test tube of RNA.[2]
Publications
Books
- DNA Based Computers II (1998), Landweber, L. and Baum, E., eds, American Mathematicsl Society
- Genetics and the Extinction of Species: DNA and the Conservation of Biodiversity (1999), Landweber, L. F. and Dobson, A. P., eds, Princeton University Press
- Evolution as Computation (2003), Landweber, L. F. and Winfree, E., eds, Springer Verlag[3][1]
Journal publications
- What is a Genome?. PLOS Genetics 12(7). 2016. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006181. PMC 4956268. PMID 27442251.
Awards and honors
- 1999 – Young Investigator Award[4]
- 2001 - Tulip Award for DNA Computing[5]
- 2005 - American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow[6]
- 2008 - Regional Award Winner, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, The New York Academy of Sciences[7]
- 2012 - Guggenheim Fellow[8]
References
- ^ a b "Laura Landweber" (PDF). Princeton Univeristy. 19 January 216. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ Hopkin, Karen (November 1, 2006). "The Fast Track to Success". The Scientist.
- ^ "The Landweber Lab: Publications". Princeton University. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Laura F. Landweber". Sigma Xi. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ^ "List of Award Winners". International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "AAAS Fellows". AAAS. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Laura Landweber". Blavatnik Awards. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Laura Landweber". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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