Jo Handelsman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University.[1] She is editor-in-chief of the academic journal DNA and Cell Biology and author of books on scientific education, most notably Scientific Teaching.[2][3]
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Handelsman earned her B.S. degree in agronomy from Cornell University in 1979 and her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984.[4]
Handelsman secured a faculty position in plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985. She remained at Wisconsin until 2009, and then took a position at the Yale School of Medicine in 2010.[2][3][5]
She is an active researcher and advocate of women in science issues, and was co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute.[6][7]