Beatrice Mintz
Dr. Beatrice Mintz was a groundbreaking cancer researcher and embryologist who helped increase our understanding of mammalian development.
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Nettie Stevens
Discoverer of sex chromosomes
Dr Judith Kinnear
Australian geneticist and the first woman to lead a New Zealand university.
Gillian Turner
Australian geneticist
Dr Irene Ayako Uchida
Dr. Irene Ayako Uchida was a pioneer in Canadian genetics and cytogenetics during the latter half of the 20th century.
Dr Peggy Ozais-Akins
Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.
Dr Gay E McKinnon
Australian botanist, geneticist and illustrator
Dr Jennifer Graves
Australian geneticist whose studies of the genetic diversity of Australia’s mammals explained the organisation, function and evolution of their genes. She is recognised for her work on the origin and evolution of human sex chromosomes, the inactivation of X chromosomes and the control of DNA synthesis in mammal cells.
Dr Vicki Chandler
American geneticist
Dr Liane Russell
Austrian-American geneticist and environmentalist