Barbara J. Meyer

Barbara J. Meyer
Barbara J. Meyer
Born	1949
Alma mater	Stanford University; Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley;
Spouse	Tom Cline
	Scientific career
Institutions	MIT; UC Berkeley; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology;
Academic advisors	Mark Ptashne, Sydney Brenner
Notable students	Anne Villeneuve

Barbara J. Meyer (born 1949) is a biologist and genetist, noted for her pioneering research on lambda phage, a virus that infects bacteria; discovery of the master control gene involved in sex determination; and studies of gene regulation, particularly dosage compensation. Meyer's work has revealed mechanisms of sex determination and dosage compensation—that balance X-chromosome gene expression between the sexes in Caenorhabditis elegans that continue to serve as the foundation of diverse areas of study on chromosome structure and function today.

Dr. Meyer is an HHMI investigator, a genetics, genomics and development professor at UC Berkeley, and an adjunct professor in the biochemistry and biophysics department at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)'s School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on the molecular networks controlling dynamic chromosome behaviors during cell development which endure genome stability.

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