Constance Cepko

Connie Cepko
Born Constance Louse Cepko
Laurel, Maryland
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Interactions of the Adenovirus 100k and Hexon Proteins: Analysis using Monoclonal Antibodies and Temperature Sensitive Mutants (1982)
Doctoral advisor Phillip Allen Sharp
Other academic advisors Richard Mulligan[1]

Website

Constance Louise Cepko is a developmental biologist and geneticist, who works at Harvard Medical School.[2][3]

Education

She was born in Laurel, Maryland, went to college at the University of Maryland, College Park and completed her Ph.D at MIT[4] under the direction of Nobel Prize winner Phillip Allen Sharp.[5]

Career and Research

As a postdoctoral research fellow she studied retroviral vectors that she used to understand the development of the retina. Cepko's laboratory has identified several genes required for retinal development. In addition, she is notable for being an mentor. Cepko is widely published in scientific journals.[3][6][7]

The Cepko lab adjoins the laboratory of Clifford Tabin[8]

Awards and honors

In 2002, Cepko was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.[2] In 2011 she received the Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science for her work in retina development.

References

  1. ↑ Cepko, C. L.; Roberts, B. E.; Mulligan, R. C. (1984). "Construction and applications of a highly transmissible murine retrovirus shuttle vector". Cell 37 (3): 1053–62. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(84)90440-9. PMID 6331674.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brownlee, C (2004). "Biography of Constance L Cepko". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (1): 14–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307955100. PMC 314129. PMID 14695892.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Constance Cepko's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  4. ↑ "Phil Sharp's Lab - Alumni". mit.edu. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Ricciardi, R. P.; Jones, R. L.; Cepko, C. L.; Sharp, P. A.; Roberts, B. E. (1981). "Expression of early adenovirus genes requires a viral encoded acidic polypeptide". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 78 (10): 6121–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.10.6121. PMC 348989. PMID 6947217.
  6. ↑ Turner, D. L.; Cepko, C. L. (1987). "A common progenitor for neurons and glia persists in rat retina late in development". Nature 328 (6126): 131. doi:10.1038/328131a0.
  7. ↑ Snyder, E. Y.; Deitcher, D. L.; Walsh, C.; Arnold-Aldea, S.; Hartwieg, E. A.; Cepko, C. L. (1992). "Multipotent neural cell lines can engraft and participate in development of mouse cerebellum". Cell 68 (1): 33–51. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90204-P. PMID 1732063.
  8. ↑ Profile of Constance L. Cepko, Ph.D, BioTechniques Vol. 36, No. 5, 2004-05-05, p. 737, Biotechniques.com