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Elliot Meyerowitz, Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology, presents “From Stem Cell to Tissue: Development at the Plant Shoot Apical Meristem”.
Elliot Meyerowitz is the George Beadle Professor of Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1980. Prior to joining the Caltech faculty he obtained an undergraduate degree in Biology from Columbia University, and graduate degrees in Biology from Yale University, following which he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
From 2000 to 2010, he was chair of Caltech Division of Biology. In 2011 and 2012, while on leave from Caltech, he served as the Inaugural Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, was Professor of Plant Morphodynamics at the University of Cambridge, and was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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