Roeder, G. Shirleen

G. Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D., was appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Also a professor of genetics, she was part of a Yale team that recently fully characterized the function of the yeast genome. She has studied the process of meiosis by isolating and characterizing yeast mutants defective in the process. She was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 1997. Roeder has been on the Yale faculty since 1981, and her work has appeared in the journals Cell and Science, among others.