Prof. Lynne Maquat University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA

Lynne Maquat received a BS degree from the University of Connecticut-Storrs and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After postdoctoral training at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, she joined the faculty of the Department of Human Genetics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. There she expanded her studies... read moreof NMD to include additional types of anemias. She is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Recent work has identified and characterized the pioneer translation initiation complex and Staufen1-mediated mRNA decay. She is currently President of the RNA Society. She is on numerous editorial boards including RNA, in the Faculty of 1000 and was formerly chair of the NIH CDF-1 study section.