Sabeeha Merchant | |
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| Born | Sabeeha Sabanali Merchant August 31, 1959 |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
| Awards | Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal (2006) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | The Chlamydomonas reinhardi chloroplast coupling factor 1 : its purification, properties, and aspects of its synthesis in vivo (1983) |
| Website | www |
Sabeeha Sabanali Merchant (born 1959) is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the photosynthetic metabolism and metalloenzymes In 2010 Merchant led the team that sequenced the Chlamydomonas genome.[1][2] She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.