Susan Gerbi
American biologist
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Early life and education
Susan Gerbi received her B.A. degree in zoology from Barnard College in 1965. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie in Tübingen, Germany.
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Research career
Gerbi received her PhD from Yale University in 1970 for her work with Joseph Gall; she and Gall developed the technique of in situ hybridization, which is used to localize RNA or DNA in tissue. After earning her doctorate, she completed a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute before returning to the United States and establishing her own laboratory at Brown University. Between 1998 and 2001, she published research detailing a method to determine the nucleotide where DNA replication begins for a gene and showed that in yeast and other eukaryotes, this site is adjacent to the origin recognition complex binding site. Her recent research has covered conservation of ribosomal RNA sequences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, as well as the role of small nucleolar RNA (a subset of small nuclear RNA) during ribosomal RNA post-translational modification. Her work uses Drosophila melanogaster and Bradysia (Sciara) coprophila, which is particularly well-suited to studies of chromosome mechanics.