Laura Landweber

Laura Landweber
Alma materPrinceton University A.B., Harvard University Ph.D.
Known forRNA mediated epigenetic control, unusual genome organisation, genome evolution, computational molecular biology, DNA computers
SpouseSteven Gubser[1]
Children3[1]
Awards2001 - Tulip Award for DNA Computing, 2005, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008. Regional Award Winner Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists from The New York Academy of Sciences, 2012 - Guggenheim Fellow
Scientific career
Fieldsevolution of genomes, DNA computers, structure and function of unusual genomes in Oxytrichia and other organisms
InstitutionsColumbia University, Princeton University
Thesis "RNA editing and the evolution of mitochondrial DNA in kinetoplastid protozoa."  (1993)

Laura Faye Landweber is an American evolutionary biologist. As of 2016, she is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and of biological sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. She specializes in RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance and molecular evolution.

  1. ^ a b McClain, Dylan Loeb (September 6, 2019). "Steven Gubser, a Bright Star in the Physics Universe, Dies at 47". The New York Times. Retrieved September 7, 2019.