Adelaide Carpenter
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Adelaide Carpenter | |
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| Born | Adelaide T. C. Carpenter June 24, 1944 Georgia, United States |
| Died | May 31, 2024 (aged 79) |
| Education | |
| Known for | Discovery of the recombination nodule |
| Spouse | [1][2] |
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Adelaide T. C. Carpenter (June 24, 1944 – May 31, 2024) was an American fruit fly geneticist at the University of Cambridge.
Biography
[edit]Carpenter was born 24 June 1944, in Georgia, United States and grew up in North Carolina. She started graduate studies of the Genetics Department at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1966. This was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.[3]
In the 1970s, whilst at the University of Washington, she was one of the numerous graduate students mentored by geneticist Larry Sandler.[4] In 1976, she obtained a faculty position at the University of California, San Diego. She was the first woman at the university to be promoted to full professor. In 1989, after becoming full professor, she took a second sabbatical in the United Kingdom and became a part of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. She later join the University of Cambridge laboratory of biologist Michael Ashburner, and had remained in Cambridge for over 30 years. Along with Ashburner’s lab, she would later work with the labs of geneticist David Glover, and finally with the lab of Felipe Teixeira.[3]
Carpenter died on May 31, 2024.[5]
Scientific work
[edit]In 1975, Carpenter discovered and published a paper on the recombination nodule, an organelle that mediates meiotic recombination.[6]
Media appearances
[edit]- The Immortalists (2014)
- Do You Want to Live Forever? (2007)
References
[edit]- ^ Chen, Ingfei. Wake-Up Call, Sciencemag.org, 19 February 2003.
- ^ Cox, Hugo. Aubrey de Grey: scientist who says humans can live for 1,000 years, Financial Times, 8 February 2017.
- ^ a b Hawley, R. Scott; Salz, Helen K.; McKim, Kim S.; Sekelsky, Jeff (2024-10-01). "The passing of the last oracle: Adelaide Carpenter and Drosophila meiosis". Chromosoma. 133 (4): 247–251. doi:10.1007/s00412-024-00825-x. ISSN 1432-0886.
- ^ Lindsley, D. (April 1999). "Larry Sandler: personal recollections" (PDF). Genetics. 151 (4): 1233–1237. doi:10.1093/genetics/151.4.1233. PMC 1460553. PMID 10101152.
- ^ Hawley, R. Scott; Salz, Helen K.; McKim, Kim S.; Sekelsky, Jeff (2024-09-26). "The passing of the last oracle: Adelaide Carpenter and Drosophila meiosis". Chromosoma. 133 (4): 247–251. doi:10.1007/s00412-024-00825-x. ISSN 0009-5915. PMID 39325143.
- ^ Carpenter, A. T. (1975). "Electron microscopy of meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster females: II. The recombination nodule--a recombination-associated structure at pachytene?". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 72 (8): 3186–3189. Bibcode:1975PNAS...72.3186C. doi:10.1073/pnas.72.8.3186. PMC 432946. PMID 810799.
Further reading
[edit]- "Dr. Adelaide T. C. Carpenter discusses genetic recombination at an American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium entitled "The Recombination Nodule: The Organelle that Mediates Meiotic Recombination."". Press release. University of California, San Diego. 1982-01-04. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
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- 1944 births
- 2024 deaths
- American geneticists
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- Scientists from California
- Scientists from Georgia (U.S. state)
- North Carolina State University alumni
- Scientists from North Carolina
- University of Washington alumni
- 20th-century American biologists
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 21st-century American biologists
- 21st-century American women scientists