Susan Randi Wessler (born 1953, New York) is an American molecular botanist and plant geneticist. Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1998) and from 2011 (to 2019 [1] ) her home secretary (first woman in this post), member of the American Philosophical Society (2013), foreign member of the Royal Society of London (2017). Emeritus Professor , University of California, Riverside .
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Biography
Her parents did not have a higher education. Grew up in the Bronx . Initially, she wanted to become a doctor, according to the wishes of her family. I accidentally entered botany [2] .
She graduated from the (1970) and the University of New York at Stony Brook (Bachelor of Biology, 1974). She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cornell University in 1980. In 1980-1982, a postdoc of the American Cancer Society at the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institution in Washington. Since 1983, an assistant professor of botany at the University of Georgia , since 1992 a full professor, since 1994 an honored research professor, and since 2005 a regent professor. Professor (2006). Since 2010 at the University of California at Riverside.
Member of the Board of Directors of the and Rosalind Franklin [3] .
Associate editor of PNAS and a member of the editorial board of Current Opinions in Plant Biology , as well as the board of science review editors [3] .
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006). Fello American Society of Botanists [3] .
The author of “Mutants of Maize” (Cold Spring Harbor Press), as well as the popular textbook “Introduction to Genetic Analysis” and more than 120 scientific articles [3] .
She is a longtime and close friend of Natasha Reichel [4] , also a professor at the University of California at Riverside, the current (since 2018) chief editor of PNAS .
Rewards
- Distinguished Scientist Award, (2007, first awarded [3] )
- Stephen Hales Prize, (2011)
- (2012)
- ASPB Fellow Award, American Society of Plant Biologists (2013)
- (2015)
Creative Research Medal and Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award, University of Georgia [3] .
Notes
- ↑ NAS Council
- ↑ On Having it All // UCR Magazine (Winter 2016)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 UCR Today: Researchers Receive High Honor From American Society of Plant Biologists
- ↑ UCR Today: Plant Cell Biologist Receives Top Scientific Honor
Links
- Regents of the University of California
- On Having it All // UCR Magazine (Winter 2016)