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Michael Rosbash
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American geneticist and chronobiologist
Key facts
- Born
- Michael Morris Rosbash , ( 1944-03-07 ) March 7, 1944 (age 82) , Kansas City, Missouri , U.S.
- Alma mater
- California Institute of Technology ( BS ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS , PhD )
- Spouse
- Nadja Abovich
- Awards
- Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2009) , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2017)
- Fields
- Genetics , Chronobiology
- Institutions
- University of Edinburgh , Brandeis University , Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Thesis
- Membrane-bound protein synthesis in hela cells (1971)
- Doctoral advisor
- Sheldon Penman
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2017
“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kansas City
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Brandeis University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- genetics
- Image
- Michael Rosbash, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Medicine (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-03-07
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- Michael Rosbash
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- genetics
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990. In 1998, they discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then determining the genetics behind the mutation. Rosbash was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Along with Michael W. Young and Jeffrey C. Hall, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
Life
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