Julie Ahringer

Julie Ahringer
FMedSci FRS
Julie Ahringer FMedSci FRS
	Ahringer in 2014
Born	Julie Ann Ahringer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Lafayette College (BA); University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD);
Known for	RNA interference; Caenorhabditis elegans
Spouse	Richard Durbin (m. 1996)
Awards	EMBO Member (2003); Crick Lecture (2004); George W. Beadle Award (2020);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chromatin; Epigenetics; Gene expression; Genome organization;
Institutions	Gurdon Institute; University of Cambridge; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis	Post-transcriptional regulation of fem-3, a sex-determining gene of Caenorhabditis elegans (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Judith Kimble
Other academic advisors	John Graham White
Website	www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/ahringer.html

Julie Ann Ahringer FMedSci FRS is an American/British Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Director of the Gurdon Institute and a member of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. She leads a research lab investigating the control of gene expression.

Her laboratory carried out the first systematic inactivation of the majority of genes in an animal through constructing and screening a genome-wide RNA interference library for the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Research in Ahringer's lab investigates the control of gene expression and genome architecture in development, using C. elegans as a model system.