Terri Grodzicker
{{short description|American molecular geneticist and virologist}}
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| name = Terri Grodzicker
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Wellesley College, Columbia University
| organization = Cold Spring Harbor
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Terri Grodzicker is an American molecular geneticist and virologist who is currently the Dean of Academic Affairs at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.{{Cite web|title=Terri Grodzicker|url=https://www.cshl.edu/research/faculty-staff/terri-grodzicker/|access-date=2020-07-12|website=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory|language=en-US}} She also serves as the editor-in-chief of Genes & Development.{{Cite web|title=Genes & Development -- About the Journal|url=http://genesdev.cshlp.org/site/misc/about.xhtml|access-date=2020-07-12|website=genesdev.cshlp.org}} Her research is in the field of human Adenoviridae. During her career at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory she has edited more than a dozen books,{{Cite web|title=Terri Grodzicker {{!}} Book Depository|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/author/Terri-Grodzicker|access-date=2020-07-12|website=www.bookdepository.com}} and co-authored papers and books with other renown members of the laboratory such as Joseph Sambrook and Bruce Stillman.
Education
Grodzicker received her B.A. in zoology in 1963 from Wellesley College.{{Cite web|title=Wellesley College Alumnae Association|url=http://web.wellesley.edu/Alum/Awards/AAA/winners/grodzicker.html|access-date=2020-07-12|website=web.wellesley.edu}} She then completed a Master of Science and a PhD in Biology from Columbia University.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=March 19, 1985|title=Extensions of Remarks|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1985-pt4/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1985-pt4-8-3.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Govinfo.gov}} During her time at Columbia she was a President's Fellow.{{Cite journal|last1=Grodzicker|first1=Terri|last2=Zipser|first2=David|date=1968-12-28|title=A mutation which creates a new site for the re-initiation of polypeptide synthesis in the z gene of the lac operon of Escherichia coli|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2F0022-2836%2868%2990388-4|journal=Journal of Molecular Biology|language=en|volume=38|issue=3|pages=305–314|doi=10.1016/0022-2836(68)90388-4|pmid=4887874|issn=0022-2836}}
Research and career
Immediately after her PhD, Grodzicker received an NIH postdoctoral fellowship and joined Harvard's department of microbiology and molecular genetics, where she worked with Jon Beckwith, focusing on the lactose operon E. coli.{{Cite journal|last1=Beckwith|first1=Jon|author1-link=Jon Beckwith|last2=Grodzicker|first2=Terri|last3=Arditti|first3=Rita|author3-link=Rita Arditti|date=1972-08-14|title=Evidence for two sites in the lac promoter region|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2F0022-2836%2872%2990031-9|journal=Journal of Molecular Biology|language=en|volume=69|issue=1|pages=155–160|doi=10.1016/0022-2836(72)90031-9|pmid=4341750|issn=0022-2836}}{{Cite journal|last1=Arditti|first1=Rita|author1-link=Rita Arditti|last2=Grodzicker|first2=Terri|last3=Beckwith|first3=Jon|author3-link=Jon Beckwith|date=1973-05-01|title=Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate-Independent Mutants of the Lactose Operon of Escherichia coli|url= |journal=Journal of Bacteriology|language=en|volume=114|issue=2|pages=652–655|doi=10.1128/JB.114.2.652-655.1973|issn=0021-9193|pmid=4350344|pmc=251822}}
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