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MIT Department of Biology

{{Short description|College department and research center}}

{{External links|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox university

| name = MIT Department of Biology

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| established = 1871

| head_label = Department Head

| head = Amy Keating

| city = Cambridge, Massachusetts

| country = United States

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| affiliations = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| website = {{URL|https://biology.mit.edu}}

}}The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a center for research and teaching in the life sciences. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments with other departments at MIT and with outside institutions.

Faculty members

{{As of|2020}} faculty members include:

=Full Professors=

| last1 = Orr-Weaver | first1 = T.

| last2 = Jones | first2 = E. W.

| title = The 2001 George W. Beadle Medal. Gerald R. Fink

| journal = Genetics

| volume = 160

| issue = 2

| pages = 371–372

| year = 2002

| doi = 10.1093/genetics/160.2.371

| pmid = 11894820

| pmc = 1461974

}}

=Associate professors=

  • Laurie Boyer
  • [http://gehringlab.wi.mit.edu/ Mary Gehring]
  • [https://hemann-lab.mit.edu/ Michael Hemann]
  • [http://web.mit.edu/martin-lab/ Adam C. Martin]

=Assistant professors=

  • [https://calolab.mit.edu/team/eliezer/ Eliezer Calo]
  • [https://lcaselab.org/ Lindsay Case]
  • [https://jhdavislab.org/ Joseph H. Davis]
  • [https://www.ajainlab.org/ Ankur Jain]
  • [https://www.lamasonlab.org/ Rebecca Lamason]
  • [http://gwli.scripts.mit.edu/group/ Gene-Wei Li]
  • [http://wi.mit.edu/people/faculty/li Pulin Li]
  • [http://louridolab.wi.mit.edu/ Sebastian Lourido]
  • [http://spranger-lab.mit.edu/ Stefani Spranger]
  • [https://www.voslab.org/ Seychelle Vos]
  • [http://yilmaz-lab.mit.edu/ Omer Yilmaz]

=Professors with primary appointments in other departments=

=Professors emeriti=

Department Heads

Alumni

Alumni of the department include:

=Nobel laureates=

The department can claim several winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine among its faculty and alumni. They are:

=Former faculty=

Former faculty include:

| pmid = 25316775

| pmc = 4196593

| year = 2014

| last1 = Amon

| first1 = A. B.

| title = Unanticipated success stories: An interview with Angelika Amon

| journal = Genetics

| volume = 198

| issue = 2

| pages = 425–6

| doi = 10.1534/genetics.114.169094

}}

  • Gene Brown
  • Arnold Demain
  • Herman Eisen{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/516038a| title = Herman Eisen (1918–2014) Immunologist and educator who discovered fundamentals of antibody binding| journal = Nature| volume = 516| issue = 7529| pages = 38| year = 2014| last1 = Steiner | first1 = Lisa| last2 = Ploegh | first2 = Hidde| pmid = 25471875| doi-access = free}}
  • Vernon Ingram
  • Susan Lindquist{{Cite journal

| pmid = 22123945

| pmc = 3250120

| year = 2011

| last1 = Lindquist

| first1 = S. L.

| title = Qn As with Susan L. Lindquist. Interviewed by Prashant Nair

| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

| volume = 108

| issue = 50

| pages = 19861

| doi = 10.1073/pnas.1118394108

| doi-access = free

}}

=Other notable alumni=

Other notable alumni include

| last1 = Orr-Weaver | first1 = T.

| title = The 2003 George W. Beadle Medal; Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling

| journal = Genetics

| volume = 164

| issue = 4

| pages = 1248–1249

| year = 2003

| doi = 10.1093/genetics/164.4.1248

| pmid = 15106662

| pmc = 1462668

}}

References

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