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Elliot Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an

American biologist. Elliot Meyerowitz
Born May 22, 1951
Alma mater Columbia University (A.B., 1973)
Career Yale University (Ph.D., 1977)
Awards Genetics Society of America Medal (1996)
Meyerowitz did his undergraduate work at
Mendel Medal (1997)
Columbia University (A.B. in biology, 1973),
International Prize for Biology (1997)
where he worked part-time in the laboratory of
Richard Lounsbery Award (1999)
Cyrus Levinthal on combined microscopic and
Wilbur Cross Medal (2001)
computational methods for tracing axons and
Harrison Prize (2005)
dendritic trees in the nervous systems of fish.[1] Balzan Prize (2006)
His graduate work was in the Department of
Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2024)
Biology at Yale University (Ph.D. 1977),
Scientific career
where he worked in the laboratory of Douglas
Kankel on the interaction of eye and brain Fields Biology
development in Drosophila, by use of genetic Institutions California Institute of Technology
mosaics. From 1977 to 1979 he was a Notable Xuemei Chen, Henrik Jönsson, Detlef
postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David students Weigel
Hogness in the Biochemistry Department at the
Stanford University School of Medicine,
developing and using methods for the molecular cloning of genes in the early days of gene cloning and
genomics. Since 1980 he has been a faculty member in the Division of Biology at the California Institute
of Technology, where he served as division chair from 2000 to 2010, and where he is now George W.
Beadle Professor of Biology. Between 2011 and 2013, he was appointed as inaugural director of the
Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and elected into a professorship in the university,
and a professorial fellow at Trinity College, while on leave from the California Institute of Technology.
Meyerowitz was a Drosophila melanogaster expert before he became a pioneer of Arabidopsis thaliana
research. Dr. Meyerowitz is well known for his contributions on the genetic and molecular basis of plant
hormone reception, and on the molecular mechanisms of pattern formation during flower and shoot apical
meristem development. More recently, he has turned his attention to physical models of shoot
morphogenesis. Many leaders in plant biology trained in his laboratory, including Xuemei Chen, Steven
E. Jacobsen, Martin F. Yanofsky, John L. Bowman, and Detlef Weigel.
Meyerowitz is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the U.S. National
Academy of Sciences (1995), and the American Philosophical Society (1998), and is a foreign member of
the French Académie des Sciences (2002) and the Royal Society (2004).
Among the awards he has received are the Genetics Society of America Medal in 1996, the International
Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1997, the Richard Lounsbery
Award from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1999, the Wilbur Cross Medal of Yale University
in 2001, the Harrison Prize of the International Society of Developmental Biologists in 2005 and the
Balzan Prize for "Plant Molecular Genetics" in 2006 (with Chris R. Somerville). In 2024 he was awarded
the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.[2]
He is a member of the editorial board of eight leading journals in genetics, genomics, and developmental
biology, and has served as president of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (1995–
1997), the Genetics Society of America (1999)[3] and the Society for Developmental Biology (2005–
2006).
Related pages
ABC model of flower development
History of research on Arabidopsis thaliana
References
1. Meyerowitz, Elliot M. (2023-01-09). "Elliot M. Meyerowitz" (https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cub.
2022.11.040). Current Biology. 33 (1): R4 – R6. Bibcode:2023CBio...33R...4M (https://ui.ads
abs.harvard.edu/abs/2023CBio...33R...4M). doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.040 (https://doi.org/1
0.1016%2Fj.cub.2022.11.040). ISSN 0960-9822 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0960-982
2).
2. Wolf Prize in Agriculture 2024 (https://wolffund.org.il/elliot-m-meyerowitz/)
3. "Past and Present GSA Officers" (https://web.archive.org/web/20181204095737/http://www.
genetics-gsa.org/about/past_officers.shtml). GSA. Archived from the original (http://www.gen
etics-gsa.org/about/past_officers.shtml) on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 27 November
2018.
External links
Photo: [1] (https://web.archive.org/web/20070406073238/http://biology.caltech.edu/Members/Meyerowit
z)
Elliot Meyerowitz's iBiology Seminars: "Why we Need to Understand Plant Development?"

(https://www.ibiology.org/plant-biology/phyllotaxis/) (2015)
Google scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CoxGqVsAAAAJ&hl=en&o
i=ao)
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