Anne Ferguson-Smith
| Anne Ferguson-Smith | |
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| Born |
Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith 1961 (age 55–56)[1] |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
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| Thesis | A genomic analysis of the human homeobox gene loci HOX 1 and HOX 2 (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frank H. Ruddle[4] |
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Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith (born 1961)[1] FRS[5] FMedSci[3] is the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.[1][2][6][7]
Education
Ferguson-Smith was educated at the University of Glasgow[1] where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree. She moved to Yale University to do a PhD where her research investigated hox genes in the human homeobox and was supervised by Frank H. Ruddle.[4]
Research and career
Her citation on election as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) reads:
| “ | She is an authority on the epigenetic control of genome function in health and disease. She is recognized for her work on parental-origin effects and epigenetic mechanisms starting with the identification of one of the first imprinted genes and the discovery that the process was regulated by DNA methylation. She has also made important contributions to our understanding of the function of non-coding RNAs that make up a large proportion of the mammalian transcriptome. Using imprinting as a paradigm of epigenetic control, her studies have forged links between DNA sequence, epigenetic state and gene regulation.[3] | ” |
Awards and honours
Ferguson-Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017[5] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2012.[3]
Personal life
Ferguson-Smith is the daughter of the geneticist Malcolm Ferguson-Smith.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 FERGUSON-SMITH, Prof. Anne Carla. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- 1 2 Nagano, T.; Mitchell, J. A.; Sanz, L. A.; Pauler, F. M.; Ferguson-Smith, A. C.; Feil, R.; Fraser, P. (2008). "The Air Noncoding RNA Epigenetically Silences Transcription by Targeting G9a to Chromatin". Science. 322 (5908): 1717–1720. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18988810. doi:10.1126/science.1163802. (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anon (2012). "Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith FRS FMedSci". acmedsci.ac.uk. London: Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01.
- 1 2 Ferguson-Smith, Anne Carla (1989). A genomic analysis of the human homeobox gene loci HOX 1 and HOX 2. proquest.com (PhD thesis). Yale University. OCLC 702620572. hdl:10079/bibid/9839056. (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 Anon (2017). "Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2017-05-05.
- ↑ Witkowski, Jan (2016). "A Conversation with Anne Ferguson-Smith". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 80: 321–323. ISSN 0091-7451. PMID 27325719. doi:10.1101/sqb.2015.80.029983.
- ↑ Constância, Miguel; Hemberger, Myriam; Hughes, Jennifer; Dean, Wendy; Ferguson-Smith, Anne; Fundele, Reinald; Stewart, Francesca; Kelsey, Gavin; Fowden, Abigail; Sibley, Colin; Reik, Wolf (2002). "Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth". Nature. 417 (6892): 945–948. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 12087403. doi:10.1038/nature00819. (subscription required)