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Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

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Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is a scientist in comparative genomics, specializing in mammalian genetics. She is the scientific Director of vertebrate genomics at the Broad Institute[1] and a professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University[2]. From 2010-2015 she was the co-founding Director of Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), together with Mathias Uhlén. As the leader of the Broad Institute's Mammalian Genome Initiative she has led the effort to sequence and analyze the genomes of various mammals, including mouse, dog, chimpanzee, horse and opossum[3]. She has worked for many years on the genetics of dogs, identifying genes and genetic variants important in disease susceptibility, morphology and behavior.

Education and early career

Lindblad-Toh received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the Department of Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institute. She worked on several projects as a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, including mouse SNP discovery, the development of genotyping technologies and association studies in human disease[4].

Awards and honors

Lindblad-Toh is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2012. In 2019 she was appointed honorary doctor of veterinary medicine by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences[5]. In 2020, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States[6].

References

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  1. ^ "Kerstin Lindblad-Toh". Broad Institute. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  2. ^ Hammar, Veronica. "Lindblad-Toh Kerstin - Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology - Uppsala University, Sweden". imbim.uu.se. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  3. ^ "29 Mammals Project". Broad Institute. 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  4. ^ Broad Institute: Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on December 19, 2009
  5. ^ "Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine". SLU.SE. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  6. ^ "2020 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
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