Elliot Meyerowitz

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name = Elliot Meyerowitz
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field = Biology
work_institution = California Institute of Technology
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prizes = Genetics Society of America Medal (1996)
International Prize for Biology (1997)
Lounsbery Award (1999)
Wilbur Cross Medal (2001)
Harrison Prize (2005)
Balzan Prize (2006).
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Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is a U.S. biologist. He is currently George W. Beadle Professor of Biology and Chair, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Meyerowitz earned his A.B. from Columbia University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Biology from Yale University. He joined the Caltech faculty after a postdoctoral period at the Biochemistry Department of the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Meyerowitz was a Drosophila expert before he became a pioneer of Arabidopsis research. Dr. Meyerowitz is well known for his contributions on the genetic and molecular basis of plant hormone reception, and on the molecular mechanisms of pattern formation in flower and shoot apical meristem development.

Dr. Meyerowitz is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1995), and the American Philosophical Society (1998), and is a foreign member of the French Académie des Sciences (2002) and the Royal Society (2004).

Among the awards he has received are the Genetics Society of America Medal in 1996, the International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1997, the Lounsbery Award from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1999, the Wilbur Cross Medal of Yale University in 2001, the Harrison Prize of the International Society of Developmental Biologists in 2005 and the Balzan Prize for "Plant Molecular Genetics" in 2006.

He is a member of the editorial board of eight leading journals in genetics, genomics, and developmental biology, and has served as president of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (1995-7), the Genetics Society of America (1999) and the Society for Developmental Biology (2005-6).

External links

Photo: [http://biology.caltech.edu/Members/Meyerowitz]