Gerald Rubin - F1000 Former Member (01 November 2001 to 07 July 2011)
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Education:- BA Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
- PhD University of Cambridge (UK)
Memberships:
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA)
- Member of the Institute of Medicine (USA)
- Foreign Member of The Royal Society (UK).
- Director, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
Research Interests:
Rubin's research has included studies of the structure and biology of transposable elements and molecular mechanisms of cell fate determination during development of the Drosophila retina. In 1982, he and Allan Spradling developed methods for making transgenic Drosophila, the first successful germ-line genetic engineering of a multicellular animal. Rubin served as the leader of the publicly funded effort to sequence the Drosophila melanogaster genome, which included collaborating with Celera Genomics Inc. to demonstrate that the whole genome shotgun method could successfully sequence an animal genome. His current interest is to generate and apply new tools to study the structure and function of the Drosophila melanogaster nervous system.