Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D.

Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named to the National Academy of Sciences. Roeder is at the forefront of scientific research in molecular genetics; she was part of a Yale team that fully characterized the function of the yeast gene. Roeder specializes in meiotic chromosome behavior and cell cycle checkpoints. In the laboratory, she is studying a special type of cell division called meiosis, which is necessary for sexual reproduction, by isolating and characterizing yeast mutants with defective meiotic processes. She has written nearly 100 scientific articles that have appeared in such journals as Cell, Science, Genetics, and Molecular Cell Biology.