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G. Shirleen Roeder
G. Shirleen Roeder is a Canadian-born molecular geneticist who spent her career at Yale University, where her team's discovery of the synaptonemal complex protein Zip1 advanced meiosis research.
Gabriel A. Dover
Gabriel A. Dover is a geneticist who was Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester and originated molecular drive, his theory of evolution first published in Nature in 1982.
Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich
Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich is an Argentine immunologist and glycobiologist at the University of Buenos Aires known for defining how galectin-glycan interactions let tumors escape immune attack.
Gary Ruvkun
Gary Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School who won half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA.
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey is an epigeneticist who heads the Epigenetics program at the Babraham Institute in the United Kingdom, known for work on DNA methylation in oocytes and single-cell methylome methods.
Gavin Sherlock
Gavin Sherlock is a yeast geneticist and Professor of Genetics at Stanford, coauthor of the Gene Ontology paper and known for lineage tracking of evolving yeast.
Geoffrey J. Faulkner
Geoffrey J. Faulkner is an Australian molecular biologist who studies somatic retrotransposition, the movement of mobile DNA such as LINE-1 within the genomes of individual brain cells.
Georg Melchers
Georg Melchers (1906–1997) was a German geneticist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and pioneered plant protoplast fusion, producing tomato-potato hybrids.
George Beadle
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg for the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis.
George D. Snell
George D. Snell, also known as George Davis Snell, was an American mouse geneticist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for discovering the mouse major histocompatibility complex.
George F. Sprague
George Frederick Sprague was an American corn geneticist who spent 48 years with the USDA at Ames, Iowa, creating the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic germplasm.
George Ledyard Stebbins
George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who extended the modern evolutionary synthesis to plants through his 1950 book Variation and Evolution in Plants.
George M. Church
George M. Church is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose lab's methods underlie next-generation sequencing and whose 2013 work helped establish CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock is an American geneticist who co-led the Human Genome Project at Baylor College of Medicine and later directed microbial genomics at the Jackson Laboratory.
George R. Fraser
George R. Fraser, also known as George Robert Fraser, is a human geneticist born in 1932 who delineated Fraser syndrome and studied deafness and blindness in childhood.
George Stamatoyannopoulos
George Stamatoyannopoulos (1934–2018) was a Greek-born American geneticist and hematologist at the University of Washington whose fetal hemoglobin research underlies modern sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia therapies.
George Streisinger
George Streisinger (1927–1984) was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist and geneticist at the University of Oregon who worked on T-even phage genetics and in 1981 published the first method for cloning a vertebrate, using zebrafish.
Gerald R. Fink
Gerald R. Fink is an American yeast geneticist and founding member of the Whitehead Institute who first showed DNA can be taken up by yeast, making it a model eukaryote.
Gerald R. Smith
Gerald R. Smith is an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who studies DNA repair by homologous recombination in E. coli and fission yeast.
Gerald Schwank
Gerald Schwank is a Swiss professor at the University of Zurich's Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology who develops CRISPR genome-editing tools to correct disease-causing mutations.
Giacomo Cavalli
Giacomo Cavalli (born 1965 in Cremona, Italy) is an Italian-French molecular biologist studying epigenetic inheritance and 3D genome organization; he leads the Chromatin and Cell Biology team at CNRS's Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier.
Gil Ast
Gil Ast is an Israeli molecular biologist and professor of human molecular genetics at Tel Aviv University known for work on RNA splicing, Alu exonization, and a therapy approach to Familial Dysautonomia.
Gil McVean
Gilean A. T. McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built the first fine-scale human genetic map and led the 1000 Genomes Project.
Gilbert S. Omenn
Gilbert S. Omenn is an American physician-scientist and geneticist at the University of Michigan whose 1996 CARET trial showed beta carotene supplements raise lung cancer risk in smokers.
Gilean McVean
Gilean McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built fine-scale recombination maps, helped lead the 1000 Genomes Project, and co-founded Genomics plc.
Giorgio Bernardi
Giorgio Bernardi (1929–2021) was an Italian molecular biologist best known for discovering isochores, long homogeneous DNA segments, and for a neo-selectionist theory of genome evolution.
Giuseppe Bertani
Giuseppe Bertani (1923–2015) was an Italian-born microbial geneticist who discovered host controlled variation in bacterial viruses, isolated phages P1 and P2, and formulated LB medium.
Gonçalo Abecasis
Gonçalo Abecasis is a Portuguese-born statistical geneticist and University of Michigan biostatistics professor, known for the gene-mapping software Merlin and METAL and leading genomics at Regeneron.
Grant R. Sutherland
Grant R. Sutherland, born 1945, is an Australian human cytogeneticist known for his work on fragile sites on chromosomes and for the dynamic mutation concept underlying fragile X syndrome.
Gregory G. Germino
Gregory G. Germino is an American physician-scientist in kidney genetics who studies polycystic kidney disease and has served as Deputy Director of the NIH's NIDDK since 2009.