Education
Schmitt was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy in biology from Stanford University in 1981.
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Johanna Schmitt
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Her research is notable for its focus on the genetic basis of traits in ecologically valuable plants and on predicting how such plants will respond and adapt to environmental change such as climate warming. She is honored with being the first female scientist at Brown University to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Schmitt earned a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in biology from Swarthmore College in 1974.
After Stanford, Schmitt conducted research at Duke University.
She joined Brown University in 1982 where she eventually became a Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History. At Brown, she was also the director of the Environmental Change Initiative.
Currently, she is a University of California at Davis Distinguished Professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology which she joined in 2012. Schmitt is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award, and is the past president of both the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the American Society of Naturalists (Associate of Science in Nursing).
She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Doctor Schmitt"s research focuses on the mechanisms of adaptation and responses to climatic and environmental variations, the adaptive evolution of developmental plasticity (such as responses to seasonal cues), the ecology and evolution of maternal effects, the genetic and adaptive basis of developmental and physiological life-history traits and conservation biology of plants.
An example of her research includes determine the roles of genetic and climatic variation in the model plant Arabidopsis. Schmitt"s research is also on the forefront in using modelling to investigate how climate change will affect the distribution and success of plants., A.M.Wilczek, Doctor of Medicine H. =.
Membership
In addition, Schmitt is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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