Susan Alexandra Gerbi

Background

Gerbi, Susan Alexandra was born in 1944 in New York City. Daughter of Claudio and Jeannette Lena (Klein) Gerbi.

Education

Bachelor, Barnard College, 1965. Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1970.

Career

North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Jane Coffin Childs Fund fellow Max-Planck Institut fur Biologie, Tubingen, Germany, 1970—1972. Assistant professor biology Brown University, Providence, 1972—1977, associate professor, 1977—1982, professor, since 1982. Director graduate training program in molecular and cell biology, 1982-1987, assistant director graduate program in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, 1987-1989, vice-chair section molecular, cellular and development biology, 1990-1994, chair department molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, 1994-2004.

Visiting associate professor Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1981-1982. Member genetics research grants review panel National Science Foundation, 1979-1980. Member genetic basis of disease committee National Institutes of Health, 1980-1984.

Achievements

• Susan Alexandra Gerbi has been listed as a noteworthy biology professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

District commissioner Palmer River Pony Club, 1973—1975. Member Federation American Societies Experimental Biology (public policy committee 1994-1997, chair consensus conference on graduate education 1996), Association American Medical Colleges (public policy committee 1994-1998, chair graduate research education and training group 1999), American Society for Cell Biology (program chair 1986, council member 1988-1990, public policy committee 1991-1997, president 1993), Society for Development Biology, Genetics Society, Ribonucleic acid Society, Sigma Xi (national lecturer).

Connections

Married James Terrell McIlwain, April 10, 1976.

Father:

Claudio Gerbi

Mother:

Jeannette Lena (Klein) Gerbi

Spouse:

James Terrell McIlwain