Margaret Robinson

Margaret Robinson
Institutions University of Cambridge
Alma mater Smith College and Harvard University
Known for adaptins
Notable awards FRS FMedSci

Margaret Scott Robinson FRS FMedSci is a British scientist, currently Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Robinson is considered to be the foremost expert on the adaptins, proteins which recruit transmembrane receptors to budding vesicles and play a key role in endocytosis and protein sorting.

Education

Robinson has a BA in biology from Smith College and a PhD in cell biology from Harvard University.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Professor Margaret Scott Robinson FMedSci FRS | Royal Society
  2. ↑ Margaret Robinson
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