Janet E. Mertz
Janet E. Mertz | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75) John B. Gurdon Harvey Lodish |
Doctoral students | Alice Barkan[2] |
Janet E. Mertz (born 1949) is an American biochemist, molecular biologist, and cancer researcher.[3] She is currently the Elizabeth McCoy Professor of Oncology in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[4] Mertz is best known for disputing Lawrence Summers' 2005 suggestion that women lack the intrinsic aptitude to excel in mathematics at the highest level[5][6][7][8] and for discovering an easy method for joining DNAs from different species.[9][10][11][12] This latter finding initiated the era of genetic engineering whose ramifications form the basis of modern genetics and the biotechnology industry.
After completing bachelor's degrees in biology and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mertz attended graduate school at
In the interim, in collaboration with
Later research and academic career
Mertz spent 15 months as a
Mertz has been a member of the University of Wisconsin - Madison faculty since 1976. Her laboratory studies regulation of expression of the genes of the DNA oncoviruses SV40, hepatitis B virus, and Epstein–Barr virus and the roles the nuclear receptor estrogen-related receptor α plays in breast cancer and regulating the activities of estrogen receptor α.
References
- ^ Mertz, Janet E. (1975). DELETION MUTANTS OF SIMIAN VIRUS 40 (PhD). Stanford University. Mertz, Janet E. (1975). DELETION MUTANTS OF SIMIAN VIRUS 40. (PhD). Stanford University.
- ^ "Janet Mertz's curriculum vitae, 1984". CSHL Archives Repository. 1984. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ American Men and Women of Science – Gale.
- ^ Janet Mertz's homepage at UW-Madison
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ Begley, Sharon (2009-06-01). "Sharon Begley: The Math Gender Gap Explained". Newsweek. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ Zeilinski, Sarah. "Girls CAN Do Math (Duh)". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ "Debunking Myths About Gender And Math". Science 2.0. 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ Paul Berg, interview by Sally Smith Hughes, 1997, (2000) A Stanford Professor's Career in Biochemistry, Science Politics, and the Biotechnology Industry. Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology, Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
- ^ Doogab Yi (2008) Cancer, Viruses, and Mass Migration: Paul Berg's Venture into Eukaryotic Biology and the Advent of Recombinant DNA Research and Technology, 1967–1980, J. History of Biology 41:589–636.
- ^ Errol C. Friedberg (2014) A Biography of Paul Berg: The Recombinant DNA Controversy Revisited, World Scientific.
- ^ a b c Doogab Yi (2015) The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology, University of Chicago Press.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4767-3350-0.
- ^ a b Janet E. Mertz & Ronald W. Davis (1972) Cleavage of DNA by R1 restriction endonuclease generates cohesive ends. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 69:3370–3374.
- ^ Janet E. Mertz's laboratory notebooks, 1971–1973 available as part of the Paul Berg Papers collection, 1953-1986, housed in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University Libraries.
- ^ Janet E. Mertz, Ronald W. Davis, and Paul Berg (1972) Characterization of the cleavage site of the RI restriction enzyme, abstract presented on August 16, 1972 at the 4th Annual Tumor Virus Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
- ^ Stanley Cohen et al. (1973) Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 70:3240–3244.
- ^ Paul Berg (1980) Nobel lecture 1980: Dissections and reconstructions of genes and chromosomes. Nobel Lectures: Chemistry 1971-1980, World Scientific
- ^ Sally S. Hughes (2001) Making dollars out of DNA: the first major patent in biotechnology and the commercialization of molecular biology 1974–1980. Isis 92:541–575.
- ^ Peter E. Lobban (1972) An Enzymatic Method for End-to-end Joining of DNA Molecules. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.
- ^ Peter E. Lobban & A. Dale Kaiser (1973) Enzymatic end-to-end joining of DNA molecules. J Mol Biol 78: 453-471.
- ^ David A. Jackson, Robert H. Symons, and Paul Berg (1972) Biochemical method for inserting new genetic information into DNA of simian virus 40. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 69:2904–2909.
- ^ Stephanie Chen (2014) Authorship and inventorship: An analysis of publishing and patenting norms and their consequences at American universities. Senior Thesis, Duke University
- ^ Janet E. Mertz & John B. Gurdon (1977) Purified DNAs are transcribed after microinjection into Xenopus oocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 74:1502-1506.
- ^ Edward M. De Robertis & Janet E. Mertz (1977) Coupled transcription-translation of DNA injected into Xenopus oocytes. Cell 12:175-182.
External links
- Janet E. Mertz publications indexed by Google Scholar