Barbara Pearse

Barbara Pearse

Barbara Pearse (born March 24, 1948 in Wraysbury, England) is a British biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. She works at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Barbara Pearse attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School and gained her undergraduate degree from University College London in 1969. She was appointed to the scientific staff of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1982. She was visiting professor in cell biology at Stanford University (1984-5). She was elected a member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 1982 and awarded the EMBO gold medal and prize in 1987. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988.

Pearse’s main contributions lie in the structure of coated vesicles. Pearse first purified coated vesicles; she also discovered the clathrin coat molecule in 1975. Coated pits and vesicles were first seen in thin sections of tissue in the electron microscope by Thomas Roth and Keith Porter in 1964. The importance of them for the clearance of LDL from blood was discovered by R. G. Anderson, Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein in 1976.

She is married to Mark Bretscher, another scientist. She lists her recreations as “wild flowers, planting trees and fresh landscapes”.

External links

* [http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/bulbeck/ Barbara Pearse home page]
* [http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/bulbeck/CurriculumVitae.html Barbara Pearse curriculum Vitae]


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