Rachel J. O'Neill
Professor and Director of the UConn Institute for Systems Genomics, Institute of Systems Genomics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics and Genome Sciences, UConn
Elected to the Academy in 2020
Education
University of Texas at Austin, 1992, BA, Zoology; La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), 1997, PhD, Genetics and Human Variation
Professional Area
Centromere structure and function; RNA biology; mammalian and marsupial evolution; genomics.
Citation
For pioneering contributions to the field of mammalian genomics; Her work has provided key insights into the structure and function of the centromere, including the discovery of novel centromeric RNA species, and the evolution of mammalian species, in particular marsupials.