Spradling, Allan C.

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Name (Latin)
Spradling, Allan C.
Other forms of name
Spradling, Allan (Allan C.)
Date of birth
1949
Associated country
United States
Other associated place
Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity
Embryology
Genetics
Associate group
Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute
Occupation
departmental director
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 218803902
Wikidata: Q2647938
Library of congress: n 92802583
Sources of Information
  • Society for Developmental Biology. Symposium (50th : 1991 : Milwaukee, Wis.). Evolutionary conservation of developmental mechanisms, 1992:CIP t.p. (Allan C. Spradling; Howard Hughes Research Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Md.)
  • Analyzing stem cells within intact Drosophila tissues, 2010:title screen (Allan Spradling, Ph.D., director, Department of Embryology at Carnegie Institute, Washington, D.C.)

Wikipedia description:

Allan C. Spradling is an American scientist and principal investigator at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who studies egg development in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a fruit fly. He is considered a leading researcher in the developmental genetics of the fruit fly egg and has developed a number of techniques in his career that have led to greater understanding of fruit fly genetics including contributions to sequencing its genome. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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