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John B. Hogenesch
John B. Hogenesch (born 1967) is a Dutch-born American chronobiologist who directs the Center for Circadian Medicine at Cincinnati Children's and is known for discovering BMAL1, the master regulator of the mammalian clock.
John C. Avise
John C. Avise, also known as J. C. Avise, is an American evolutionary geneticist, founder of phylogeography, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers is a genetic epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and President's Chair at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, known for the 2016 BMI methylation study.
John C. Schimenti
John C. Schimenti is a molecular geneticist, the James Law Professor of Genetics at Cornell University since 2004, known for identifying mouse genes governing meiosis, recombination, and fertility.
John Doebley
John F. Doebley is an American plant geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for identifying teosinte, a weedy Mexican grass, as corn's wild ancestor.
John E. Sulston
John E. Sulston (1942–2018) was a British geneticist who mapped the roundworm cell lineage, directed the Sanger Centre, and shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
John E.J. Rasko
John E.J. Rasko is an Australian clinical haematologist and molecular biologist who led Australia's first clinical gene therapy program and ran world-first trials for hemophilia and thalassaemia.
John F. Atkins
John F. Atkins (John Fuller Atkins), born 1944, is an Irish molecular geneticist at University College Cork known for establishing recoding, the reprogramming of genetic decoding by mRNA signals.
John G. Doench
John G. Doench, also cited as John Doench, directs research at the Broad Institute's Genetic Perturbation Platform and is known for sgRNA design rules for CRISPR-Cas9.
John H. Werren
John H. Werren is an American evolutionary geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Rochester, known for research on Wolbachia bacteria, Nasonia wasps, and selfish genetic elements.
John J. Wasmuth
John J. Wasmuth was an American molecular geneticist and professor at UC Irvine who identified the FGFR3 gene causing achondroplasia and helped find the Huntington's disease gene.
John M. Carethers
John M. Carethers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who became UC San Diego's vice chancellor for Health Sciences in 2023, known for research on DNA mismatch repair in colorectal cancer.
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist who introduced game theory into evolutionary biology, coined the evolutionarily stable strategy, and won the 2001 Kyoto Prize.
John Preer Jr.
John Preer Jr., also known as John Randolph Preer Jr., was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied Paramecium for seven decades and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
John R. B. Perry
John R. B. Perry is a human geneticist and MRC Investigator at the University of Cambridge known for landmark studies of puberty timing, menopause, and testosterone's sex-specific disease effects.
John R. Preer
John R. Preer was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied non-Mendelian inheritance in Paramecium and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
John R. Roth
John R. Roth is an American bacterial geneticist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for decades of Salmonella typhimurium genetics and a central role in the adaptive mutation debate.
John Rinn
John Rinn, also known as John L. Rinn, is an American RNA biologist who studies long noncoding RNAs and holds a professorship at the University of Colorado Boulder.
John S. Mattick
John S. Mattick is an Australian molecular biologist at UNSW Sydney who argues that most non-coding DNA, long dismissed as junk, is a regulatory architecture transacted through RNA.
John S. Parkinson
John S. Parkinson is an American geneticist at the University of Utah known for mapping the genes and molecular mechanism of bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli.
John Thomas Patterson (geneticist)
John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960) was an American geneticist and embryologist who taught at the University of Texas from 1908 to 1955 and wrote Evolution in the Genus Drosophila (1952).
John V. Moran
John V. Moran is the Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, known for developing the cultured-cell assay for LINE-1 retrotransposons.
Jonathan C. Cohen
Jonathan C. Cohen is an American human geneticist at UT Southwestern who, with Helen Hobbs, used the Dallas Heart Study to show PCSK9 mutations lower LDL cholesterol and heart disease risk.
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones (born 1954) is a British plant molecular geneticist at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, known for cloning plant disease-resistance genes and the zigzag model of plant immunity.
Jonathan D. Gitlin
Jonathan D. Gitlin is an American pediatrician and physician-scientist known for establishing Wilson disease and Menkes disease as disorders of copper-transporting ATPases, and an elected National Academy of Medicine member.
Jonathan F. Wendel
Jonathan F. Wendel is an American plant evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University who studies polyploidy in cotton and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Jonathan Hodgkin
Jonathan Hodgkin, born 1949, is a British geneticist who, as a doctoral student of Sydney Brenner and later Professor of Genetics at Oxford, defined the sex-determination pathway of C. elegans.
Jonathan Marchini
Jonathan Marchini is a British statistical geneticist, formerly Professor of Statistical Genomics at Oxford and, since 2018, head of statistical genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center.
Jonathan Mill
Jonathan Mill is a scientist who studies epigenetics in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease, and Professor of Epigenomics at the University of Exeter Medical School since 2012.
Jonathan Pritchard
Jonathan K. Pritchard is a population and evolutionary geneticist, the Bing Professor at Stanford University, known for the Structure algorithm and the omnigenic model of complex traits.