Adelaide Carpenter

Adelaide T. C. Carpenter (born June 24, 1944) is an American fruit fly geneticist at the University of Cambridge.

Adelaide T. C. Carpenter
Born
Adelaide T.C. Carpenter

(1944-06-24) June 24, 1944
Georgia, United States
Alma materNorth Carolina State University (Ph.D.)
Known forDiscovery of the recombination nodule
Spouse(s)
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m. 1991; div. 2017)
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Scientific career
Institutions

Biography

Carpenter was born 24 June 1944, in Georgia, United States and grew up in North Carolina. In the 1970s, whilst at the University of Washington, she was one of the numerous graduate students mentored by Larry Sandler.[3] In 1976, she obtained a faculty position at the University of California, San Diego. In 1989, after becoming full professor, she took a second sabbatical in the United Kingdom.

Scientific work

In 1975, Carpenter discovered and published a paper on the recombination nodule, an organelle that mediates meiotic recombination.[4]

Media appearances

  • The Immortalists (2014)
  • Do You Want to Live Forever? (2007)
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