Amy Gladfelter

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Full Name	Amy Gladfelter
Occupation	Cell Biologist
Date Of Birth	Apr 27, 1974(1974-04-27)
Age	50
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Taurus

Amy Gladfelter Biography

Amy Gladfelter is one of the most popular and richest Cell Biologist who was born on April 27, 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Gladfelter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 27,

1974. She grew up in Windermere, Florida, and graduated from West Orange High School in 1992. It was during high school that Gladfelter became interested in biology, primarily due to exploring the natural world that the Florida countryside had to offer. Gladfelter attended and graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Molecular Biology in 1996. During her undergraduate summers, she spent extensive time doing research with Simon Lewis at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Toby Bradshaw at the University of Washington, and later Bonnie Bassler at Princeton. She then attended Duke University where she worked in Danny Lew’s lab, exploring how cells polarize and CDC42 signaling. In 2001 she graduated from Duke University with a Ph.D. in Genetics. Following her time at Duke, she conducted post-doctoral research on the control of nuclear division in multinucleate fungal cells with Peter Philippsen at the University of Basel Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland.

A few years after starting at Dartmouth, Gladfelter began to collaborate with Rudolf Oldenbourg and Tomomi Tani during summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. One of her main focuses at the MBL is investigating the septin cytoskeleton, and in particular the “orientation and dynamics of individual septin molecules with higher-order structures.” In 2016, Gladfelter left Dartmouth and began working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where she currently serves as an Associate Professor of Biology. As before at Dartmouth, her lab at UNC employs both students and post-doctoral trainees to further investigate how cells are organized in time and space. The two main concepts she covers are how the cytoplasm is spatially organized and how cells sense their own geometry. Her team uses “large multinucleate cells such as fungi, mammalian cancer lines, muscle, and placenta” to study the architecture of the cytoplasm. It is these cells that are of interest because of the challenges they face in cell division and growth due to their size. Additionally, multinucleate cells are common in tumors, making her lab work extremely relevant to understanding mechanisms of cancer formation and persistence. Recent discoveries include the aggregation of proteins that form liquid-like droplets within the cytosol, an example of biological phase separation (liquid-liquid phase separation).

Amy Gladfelter Net Worth

Amy Gladfelter is one of the richest Cell Biologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amy Gladfelter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Amy S. Gladfelter (born April 27, 1974) is a quantitative cell biologist and Associate Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she mainly investigates cell cycle control and the septin cytoskeleton. She discovered that nuclei in multinucleated cells can undergo the cell cycle asynchronously despite sharing a common cytoplasm and continues to investigate spatial organization of the cell and cellular components. Additionally, she studies the assembly of the septin cytoskeleton and the how aberrant septin structure affects their function. She has trained and mentored many undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows. The American Society for Cell Biology named her the winner of the 2015 WICB Mid- Career Award for Excellence in Research for her contributions to the field. Gladfelter was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar in 2016.

Following her post doctorate work in Switzerland, Gladfelter returned to the United States and began work at Dartmouth College in 2006. She had her own lab which dealt with the arrangement of cells in time and space, and the organization of the septin cytoskeleton in cells. Her lab combined live cell microscopy and computational approaches with biochemistry and genetics analyses. One of the most significant discoveries Gladfelter made was asynchronous nuclear division in multinucleated cells. This discovery came in Ashbya gossypii cells, where nuclei that occupied the same cytoplasm progress through the cell cycle independently of each other. During her time at Dartmouth, Gladfelter also taught a full load of courses while she served as an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. Additionally, she mentored undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post doctorates in her lab. Her leadership earned her the Graduate Student Mentoring Award from Dartmouth in 2014.

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Malik Ranked on the list of most popular Cell Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Amy Gladfelter celebrates birthday on April 27 of every year.