Adelaide T. C. Carpenter (born June 24, 1944) is an American
fruit fly geneticist at the
University of Cambridge.
Biography
Carpenter was born 24 June 1944, in
Georgia, United States and grew up in
North Carolina. In the 1970s, whilst at the
University of Washington, she was one of the numerous
graduate students mentored by
Larry Sandler.
In 1976, she obtained a faculty position at the
University of California, San Diego. In 1989, after becoming
full professor, she took a second
sabbatical
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in the United Kingdom.
Scientific work
In 1975, Carpenter discovered and published a paper on the
recombination nodule, an
organelle
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that mediates
meiotic recombination.
Media appearances
* The Immortalists (2014)
* Do You Want to Live Forever? (2007)
References
Further reading
*
Web pageat
University of Cambridge
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Living people
1944 births
American geneticists
University of California, San Diego faculty
Scientists from California
Scientists from Georgia (U.S. state)
North Carolina State University alumni
Scientists from North Carolina
University of Washington alumni
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists