Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash | |
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Michael Rosbash in Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017 | |
| Born | Michael Morris Rosbash March 7, 1944 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
| Spouse | Nadja Abovich |
| Awards | Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2009) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics Chronobiology |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh Brandeis University Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Thesis | Membrane-bound protein synthesis in hela cells (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sheldon Penman |
Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990. In 1998, they discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then determining the genetics behind the mutation. Rosbash was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Along with Michael W. Young and Jeffrey C. Hall, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".