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Laura Landweber is a Professor at Columbia University, affiliated with the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Biological Sciences, and Systems Biology in the Colleges of Physicians & Surgeons and Arts & Sciences. She previously served as faculty at Princeton University (1994-2016) and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University (1993). Her research focuses on microbial eukaryotes with complex genome architectures, particularly the ciliate Oxytricha, investigating RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance, genome rearrangement, and the co-evolution of transposons with genomic systems.
Her work has been recognized through prestigious awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), Blavatnik Award (2008), and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2005). She served as President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (2017) and contributed to advisory panels for the NSF, NIH, and NASA.
Recent publications emphasize genome evolution, RNA-guided DNA reorganization, and computational tools for analyzing complex genomes. Her lab employs functional and comparative genomic experiments to study RNA’s role in programming genome architecture across generations, leveraging Oxytricha’s dual-nucleus system to dissect mechanisms of DNA rearrangement and epigenetic memory.
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2012)
- Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (2008)
- AAAS Fellow (2005)
- President, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (2017)
Her educational background includes an AB in Molecular Biology from Princeton University (1989) and a PhD from Harvard University (1993). She has edited three books and authored over 150 publications spanning genetics, evolution, and biological computation.
