Peter Koopman

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Full Name	Peter Koopman
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1959(1959-12-03)
Age	65
Birthplace	Geelong
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Peter Koopman Biography

Peter Koopman is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on December 3, 1959 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Peter Anthony Koopman FAA (born 3 December 1959) is an Australian biologist best known for his role in the discovery and study of the mammalian Y-chromosomal sex-determining gene, Sry.

1981: First Class Honours, Department of Genetics, The University of Melbourne

Peter Koopman Net Worth

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

Peter Anthony Koopman was born on 3 December 1959 in Geelong, Victoria, to Dutch immigrant parents, and raised in the coastal town of Torquay. He attended Oberon High School in Geelong, where he was School Captain. He studied science at the University of Melbourne from 1977 to 1979, majoring in genetics, and was a resident of Janet Clarke Hall. He undertook BSc Honours research at the Birth Defects Research Institute (now the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute) at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, under the supervision of Richard (Dick) Cotton, and graduated with First Class Honours.

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Establishing his own research group at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in 1992, Koopman set out to discover new members of a growing family of genes related to Sry – “Sox” genes. Among the first discoveries was Sox9, a key regulator of skeletal and testis development, which carries mutations in humans with the skeletal disorder campomelic dysplasia and associated XY sex reversal.

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Kapila Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Peter Koopman celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.

Koopman instigated the Australian Developmental Biology Workshop (2001- ), the Australian Sex Summit (2004- ), and the International Workshop on Sox Transcription Factors (2005 – ). He was organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor (USA) Workshop on Molecular Embryology of the Mouse (1995-1998), and Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Germinal Stem Cell Biology (2017).

Top Facts about Peter Koopman

1. Peter Koopman is an Australian biologist born in 1959.
2. He is a professor at the University of Queensland.
3. Koopman’s research focuses on sex determination and gonad development.
4. He discovered the SRY gene, which determines male sex in mammals.
5. Koopman has published over 200 scientific papers.
6. He was awarded the Gottschalk Medal for his contributions to reproductive biology.
7. Koopman serves on several editorial boards for scientific journals.
8. His work has been cited over 25,000 times by other researchers.
9. Koopman collaborates with scientists around the world on various projects.
10. He is considered a leading expert in his field of study.