Life scientists

Linda L. Randall

Linda L. Randall is an American biochemist known for defining the role of the chaperone SecB in protein export in E. coli, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Linda M. Hendershot

Linda M. Hendershot is a cell biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for her work on the ER chaperone BiP and protein folding.

Linda Partridge

Linda Partridge is a British geneticist known for her work on the genetics of aging in fruit flies, holding the Weldon Professorship at University College London.

Linda Petzold

Linda Petzold is an American applied mathematician and computer scientist at UC Santa Barbara, known for DASSL differential-algebraic solvers and stochastic simulation of biochemical systems.

Linda Richter

Linda Richter, also known as Linda M. Richter, is a South African developmental psychologist at Wits University who led the 2016 Lancet early childhood development series.

Linda Saif

Linda Saif is an American veterinary virologist and immunologist, a Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State known for research on coronaviruses and rotaviruses of food animals.

Lindsay Schwarz is an American circuit neuroscientist and Associate Member at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for viral-genetic neural circuit tracing and norepinephrine systems research.

Lindsay Shepherd Olive

Lindsay Shepherd Olive (1917–1988) was an American mycologist who taught botany at Columbia University and UNC Chapel Hill, described many new fungal species, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.

Ling Qi

Ling Qi is a Chinese-American cell biologist known for research on ER protein quality control and its roles in obesity and diabetes, chairing Molecular Physiology at the University of Virginia.

Ling-Gang Wu

Ling-Gang Wu is a neuroscientist and Senior Investigator at NINDS who leads the Synaptic Transmission Section, known for the first live-cell imaging of fusion pores and the dynamic-pore theory.

Linheng Li

Linheng Li is a molecular biologist and Stowers Institute investigator in Kansas City known for identifying the mammalian blood stem cell niche and stem cell quiescence signals.

Lino Ferreira

Lino S. Ferreira is a Portuguese researcher in biomaterials, stem cells, and nanomedicine, leading the Advanced Therapies group at the University of Coimbra's Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology.

Linzhao Cheng

Linzhao Cheng is a Chinese-American human stem cell biologist and genome-editing researcher, a tenured Johns Hopkins professor known for the first gene targeting in human iPS cells.

Lionel Christiaen

Lionel Christiaen is a French developmental systems biologist who directs the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen, studying heart and muscle lineage development in the tunicate Ciona.

Lionel Penrose

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898–1972), British psychiatrist and geneticist, third Galton Professor at UCL, Colchester Survey researcher, opponent of eugenics, pioneer of medical genetics and Down syndrome maternal-age link.

Lior Pachter

Lior Pachter is an American computational biologist, the Bren Professor of Computational Biology at Caltech since 2017, known for the RNA-seq software kallisto and Cufflinks.

Liqun Luo

Liqun Luo (骆利群) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist at Stanford University who studies how neural circuits assemble their connections, known for developing the MARCM method for labeling single neurons in fruit flies.

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Liran Carmel

Liran Carmel is an Israeli computational biologist and professor of genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who reconstructs DNA methylation maps from ancient DNA damage patterns.

Liron Bar-Peled

Liron Bar-Peled is a cancer biologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School who leads a lab at Massachusetts General Hospital studying oxidative stress and covalent chemical proteomics.

Lisa Ainsworth

Lisa Ainsworth, who publishes as Elizabeth Ainsworth, is an American plant physiologist studying crop responses to elevated CO2 and ozone at the USDA and University of Illinois.

Lisa Giocomo

Lisa M. Giocomo is a neuroscientist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies grid cells in the entorhinal cortex and the brain's spatial navigation system.

Lisa Stowers

Lisa Stowers (Lisa T. Stowers) is an American neuroscientist and Professor at Scripps Research who studies how the mouse brain detects pheromones driving social behavior.

Lisa V. Goodrich

Lisa V. Goodrich, also known as Lisa Goodrich, is a neuroscientist who studies how auditory circuits in the inner ear and brainstem assemble and fail.

Liusuo Zhang

Liusuo Zhang is a Chinese physiologist at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, known for cloning the C. elegans tmc-1 gene.

Lloyd A. Greene

Lloyd A. Greene is an American neurobiologist and Columbia University professor emeritus who, with Arthur Tischler, established the PC12 cell line for studying nerve growth factor.

Lloyd J. Old

Lloyd J. Old (1933–2011) was an American cancer immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, known for co-discovering tumor necrosis factor and co-identifying p53, called the Father of Modern Tumor Immunology.

Lloyd M. Beidler

Lloyd M. Beidler (1922–2003) was an American neuroscientist who founded modern taste research at Florida State University, proposed the Beidler equation, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.

Lloyd M. Smith

Lloyd M. Smith, born 1954 in Berkeley, California, is an American chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing the first fluorescence-based automated DNA sequencer and proteomics software.