Joy Bergelson

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Joy Michele Bergelson
NationalityAmerican
EducationScB, M. Phil. Ph. D.
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
Institutions
ThesisPlant spatial pattern and the invasiveness of annual weeds (1990)

Joy Michele Bergelson is an American

evolutionary biologist. She is currently the Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at New York University.[1] Bergelson was previously and James D. Watson Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, where she chaired the department for ecology and evolution. Her research focuses on the evolution and ecology of plants.[2]

Education and career

Born in

Brooklyn, New York and raised in Metuchen, New Jersey,[3] She graduated in 1980 from Metuchen High School, which inducted her into its hall of fame in 2017.[4]

Bergelson graduated from Brown University with an ScB in Biology in 1984. She went on to further study as a Marshall Scholar at the University of York, receiving an MPhil in Biology in 1986 and a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 1990.[2] Bergelson worked as a demonstrator in Ecology at the University of Oxford, before joining the faculty of the Washington University in St. Louis in 1992. She left St. Louis for Chicago in 1994.[5]

She served as the section chair for Biology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.[6]

Research

Bergelson is known for her research on the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, its ecology and the evolution of plant-pathogen interactions. Her early research examined interactions between insects and trees,[7] spatial patterns in trees[8] and weeds,[9] and the energetic cost to plants to resist insects.[10] Subsequently, she examined genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana,[11][12] the genetic basis for disease resistance in plants,[13] and polymorphisms in Arabidopsis.[14][15] Bergelson's research has also examined genetic adaptations in plants to recent climate change.[16]

Selected publications

Honors and awards

References

  1. ^ a b "NYU Biology Faculty Directory". New York University. April 28, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Ecology & Evolution". Ecology & Evolution University of Chicago. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  3. ^ Joy M. Bergelson, National Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 22, 202. "Bergelson was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Metuchen, NJ."
  4. ^ Tufaro, Greg. "Reception for Metuchen High School's second Hall of Fame class to be held April 15", Courier News, November 8, 2017. Accessed January 22, 2023. "Dr. Joy Bergelson, Class of ‘80; Joy Bergelson is Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago."
  5. ^ a b "Joy Bergelson". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  6. ISSN 0036-8075
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  7. JSTOR 1940442
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  8. S2CID 86727918
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  9. JSTOR 1940470
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  10. S2CID 85325623
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  11. PMID 9738493
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  12. PMID 9539444
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  13. S2CID 4380447
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  14. PMID 15907155
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  15. PMID 16798885
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  16. S2CID 14950548
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  17. ^ "Elected Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  18. ^ "Joy M. Bergelson". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved January 9, 2021.

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