Gerald Joyce

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Gerald Joyce
Gerald Joyce, 2010
Born	1956 (age 57–58)
Institutions	The Scripps Research Institute
Alma mater	University of Chicago University of California, San Diego
Known for	in vitro evolution
Website
www.scripps.edu/joyce

Gerald Francis Joyce (born 1956) is a professor and researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, best known for his work on in vitro evolution of catalytic RNA molecules and the origins of life.

Joyce received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1978, completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in 1984. He was a postdoctoral fellow and senior research associate at the Salk Institute from 1985 to 1989, and joined Scripps in 1989. Joyce was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2001. He served as Dean of the Faculty at Scripps from 2006 to 2011,^[1] during which time he was instrumental in founding a second campus in Jupiter, Florida.^[2]

Joyce received the Urey medal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL) in 2005. ^[3] In 2009, Joyce's lab was the first to produce a self-replicating in vitro system, capable of exponential growth and continuing evolution, composed entirely of RNA enzymes. ^[4]^[5]

Awards

National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, 1994
Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, 1995
Herbert W. Dickerman Award, 1997
Hans Sigrist Prize, 1997

References

↑ "Joyce, Gerald" in VIVO
↑ "Welcome to Jupiter, Scripps Florida" pamphlet
↑ "ISSOL Medals and Honors"
↑ Lincoln, T. A.; Joyce, G. F. (2009). "Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme". Science 323 (5918): 1229–1232. doi:10.1126/science.1167856. PMC 2652413. PMID 19131595.
↑ Wilson da Silva, "Life-like evolution in a test tube", Cosmos Magazine Online

External links

v t e Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry

Formerly the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry

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Date of birth	1956
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