Nancy A. Moran

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nancy A. Moran
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Dec 21, 1954(1954-12-21)
Age	70
Birthplace	Dallas
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Aquarius

Nancy A. Moran Biography

Nancy A. Moran is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on December 21, 1954 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Nancy A. Moran (born December 21, 1954, Dallas, Texas) is an American evolutionary biologist and entomologist, University of Texas Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor, and co-founder of the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute. Since 2005, she has been a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Her seminal research has focused on the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum and its bacterial symbionts including Buchnera (bacterium). In 2013, she returned to the University of Texas at Austin, where she continues to conduct research on bacterial symbionts in aphids, bees, and other insect species. She has also expanded the scale of her research to bacterial evolution as a whole. She believes that a good understanding of genetic drift and random chance could prevent misunderstandings surrounding evolution. Her current research goal focuses on complexity in life-histories and symbiosis between hosts and microbes, including the microbiota of insects.

In 2011, one of Moran’s trainees, John McCutcheon, named an endosymbiont in the mealy bug system Moranella endobia, in recognition of Moran’s contributions to the field.

Nancy A. Moran Net Worth

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

Moran is one of eight children of Robert Moran, who ran a drive-in movie theater. As a child, Moran liked to collect insects in jars. Yet as youth she never envisioned becoming a scientist and did not even find her biology class interesting. Moran began her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas in 1972 in an honors program known as Plan II. She started out as an art major, and later switched to philosophy. For an elective requirement she took an introduction to biology course. From this, she became interested in biology. During her senior year at college while taking a class on animal behavior with Nancy Burley as a TA (who later studied bird behavior), she undertook an honors project on mate choice in pigeons.

In 1976, Moran graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Biology in 1976. She received her Ph.D. in zoology in 1982 from the University of Michigan studying with W.D. Hamilton and Richard D. Alexander. In 1984, she was a fellow at the National Academy of Sciences in the Institute of Entomology in Czechoslovakia>. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Northern Arizona University from 1984-1986. She rose to the rank of Regents’ Professor at the University of Arizona from 1986-2010, was the William H. Fleming Professor at Yale University from 2010-2013, and subsequently moved to the University of Texas where she is now the Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor and Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Chair.

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Top Facts about Nancy A. Moran

1. Nancy A. Moran is an American biologist.
2. She specializes in the study of symbiosis and evolution.
3. Moran received her PhD from the University of Michigan.
4. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
5. Moran has published over 200 scientific papers.
6. Her research focuses on insects and their microbial partners.
7. She has studied honeybees, ants, and other social insects.
8. Moran has received numerous awards for her work, including the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences.
9. She currently works at the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of integrative biology.
10. Moran’s research sheds light on how organisms co-evolve with their microbiomes.

Why is nancy a Moran famous?

Nancy Moran is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose work ranges from the evolutionary genetics of bacteria to animal behavior. Moran’s research interests focus on the ecological and evolutionary relationships between aphids and their host plants.

What did nancy Moran discover?

Nancy Moran’s molecular and microscopy studies of aphids (in dish) have uncovered key principles of symbiosis.