Adelaide Carpenter

Adelaide T. C. Carpenter
Born (1944-06-24) June 24, 1944
Georgia, United States
Citizenship United States
Institutions University of California, San Diego, University of Cambridge
Education Ph.D.
Alma mater North Carolina State University
Known for Discovery of the recombination nodule
Spouse Aubrey de Grey

Adelaide T. C. Carpenter is a fruit fly geneticist at the University of Cambridge.

Biography

Carpenter was born 24 June 1944, in Georgia, United States and grew up in North Carolina. In the 1970s, whilst at the University of Washington, she was one of the numerous graduate students mentored by Larry Sandler.[1] In 1976, she obtained a faculty position at the University of California, San Diego. In 1989, after becoming full professor, she took a second sabbatical in the United Kingdom. Carpenter is married to Aubrey de Grey.

Scientific work

In 1975, Carpenter discovered and published a paper on the recombination nodule, an organelle that mediates meiotic recombination.[2]

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