Wendy Bickmore#
| Membership Number: | 3603 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/w.bickmore.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Head of Chromosomes and Gene Expression Section, MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh
- 1996 - 2008 Senior Scientist - career appointment, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh
- 1991 - 1996 Fellow of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh
- 1986 - 1991 MRC short term non-clinical scientist, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Genome organisation and function
- Chromatin dynamics in development
- The nuclear periphery and gene regulation
- Chromatin folding and chromatin compaction
- Long-range gene regulation - function of enhancers
- Function of polycomb complexes
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Recipent of ERC Advanced grant
- 2008 Elected to give the Jenkinson Memorial Lecture, University of Oxford
- 2005 Elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
- 2005 Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2005 Awarded Tenovus medal
- 2001 Elected as member of EMBO
- 2001 Charles Darwin lecturer for the British Association of Science
- 1999 James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in Human Genetics
- 1997 Balfour lecturer. Genetical Society of Great Britain
