Richard A. Jorgensen
American biologist
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- PhD Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard A. Jorgensen is an American molecular geneticist and an early pioneer in the study of post transcriptional gene silencing. Biography From 1965 through 1969 he attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, a college preparatory school. Jorgensen holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering and a M.S. in chemistry from Northwestern University, which he attended from 1969 through 1973. In 1978, he received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He did postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institution's plant biology department at Stanford University with William F Thompson, and then at the University of California at Davis in the department of genetics with Robert W. Allard. From 1983 to 1990, he was employed at Advanced Genetic Sciences, Inc., which became DNA Plant Technology Corp., where he was director of floriculture genetic engineering and did the initial work on cosuppression. From 1990 to 1997, he was a research geneticist at UC Davis, and from 1997 to 2010 he was associate professor and then professor at the University of Arizona where he held the Bud Antle Chair for Excellence in Agricultural and Life Sciences.
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