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Tetsuji Kakutani
Tetsuji Kakutani (角谷 徹仁) is a Japanese plant geneticist known for Nature papers showing that DNA methylation silences transposable elements in Arabidopsis, and is a Specially Appointed Professor at the National Institute of Genetics.
Thaddeus P. Dryja
Thaddeus P. Dryja, also published as T. P. Dryja, is an ophthalmic pathologist and molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School known for cloning the retinoblastoma gene and finding rhodopsin mutations in retinitis pigmentosa.
Theodore Friedmann
Theodore Friedmann (born 1935) is an American physician-scientist and emeritus professor at UC San Diego who proposed human gene therapy and won the 2015 Japan Prize.
Theodore T. Puck
Theodore T. Puck (1916–2005) was an American geneticist who essentially created somatic cell genetics, devised single-cell cloning of mammalian cells, and established the CHO cell line.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was a Ukrainian-born American geneticist whose fieldwork on wild fruit flies reconciled natural selection with genetics, and whose 1937 book launched the modern evolutionary synthesis.
Theophilus Painter
Theophilus Painter (1889–1969) was an American zoologist and geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin who established that mammals, including humans, have X- and Y-chromosomes determining sex.
Thijs Ettema
Thijs Ettema, also known as Thijs J. G. Ettema, is a Dutch evolutionary microbiologist, chair professor of Microbiology at Wageningen University since 2019, known for discovering the Asgard archaea.
Thomas B. Friedman
Thomas B. Friedman is an American human geneticist who has identified many genes causing hereditary deafness and blindness, including PCDH15, and leads a genetics laboratory at the NIH.
Thomas Blumenthal
Thomas Blumenthal is an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for discovering the first eukaryotic operons, in C. elegans.
Thomas D. Fox
Thomas D. Fox is a molecular geneticist who spent his career at Cornell University studying how nuclear genes control mitochondrial gene expression in budding yeast, and how mitochondrially coded proteins assemble into respiratory chain complexes.
Thomas F. Anderson
Thomas F. Anderson (1911–1991) was an American biophysical chemist and geneticist who pioneered electron microscope studies of viruses and bacteria, devising the critical point drying method.
Thomas F. Donahue
Thomas F. Donahue is a yeast molecular geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, known for genetic analysis of translation initiation in budding yeast.
Thomas Gelehrter
Thomas D. Gelehrter is an American human geneticist and physician known for research on steroid hormone gene regulation and PAI-1, and for chairing human genetics at Michigan.
Thomas Gridley
Thomas Gridley is an American developmental geneticist and Tufts professor based at MaineHealth Institute for Research, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway and Snail genes.
Thomas H. Eickbush
Thomas H. Eickbush is an American molecular biologist and University of Rochester professor known for his work on the R2 retrotransposon of the silkmoth and for establishing target-primed reverse transcription.
Thomas H. Morgan
Thomas H. Morgan, or Thomas Hunt Morgan, was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through fruit fly experiments, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through experiments on fruit flies, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Thomas Mitchell‐Olds
Thomas Mitchell-Olds is an evolutionary geneticist who studies natural genetic variation in wild plants, and is Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology at Duke University.
Thomas Petes
Thomas Petes is an American yeast geneticist at Duke University known for work on genome stability and DNA mismatch repair, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Thomas Quertermous
Thomas Quertermous is a cardiologist and molecular biologist who studies the genetics of coronary artery disease, holding the William G. Irwin Professorship of Medicine at Stanford University.
Thomas W. Cline
Thomas W. Cline is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for showing that the fruit fly gene Sex-lethal controls sex determination and dosage compensation.
Tian Xu
Tian Xu (许田), born 1962, is a Chinese-born geneticist known for defining growth-control pathways in Drosophila and adapting the piggyBac transposon for mammalian genetics; he joined Westlake University in 2018 after a long Yale career.
Timothy A. Stewart
Timothy A. Stewart (Timothy Andrew Stewart) is a geneticist who trained with Beatrice Mintz and Philip Leder and built the first transgenic mouse models of cancer and insulin-dependent diabetes.
Timothy H. Bestor
Timothy H. Bestor was an American molecular biologist who purified and cloned the first eukaryotic DNA methyltransferase, DNMT1, and was Professor Emeritus of Genetics at Columbia University.
Timothy Hughes
Timothy Hughes, also known as Timothy R. Hughes, is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto known for large-scale studies of how transcription factors read DNA.
Timothy J. Aitman
Timothy J. Aitman, known as Tim Aitman, is a British molecular pathologist and geneticist known for identifying disease genes through rat genetics and rare-disease genome sequencing.
Timothy M. Frayling
Timothy M. Frayling is a human geneticist who studies the genetics of type 2 diabetes and obesity, known for the 2007 discovery of the FTO obesity variant.
Ting Wang
Ting Wang is a geneticist and computational biologist who heads the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on transposable elements.
Todd P. Michael
Todd P. Michael, also known as Todd Michael, is an American plant genomicist at the Salk Institute known for circadian clock work and building near-complete plant genomes.
Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta (太田朋子) is a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, the main advocate of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution.