Valerie Reinke
Professor of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine
Elected to the Academy in 2024
Education
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1990, BS, Genetics; University of Texas Health Science Center, 1996, PhD, Biomedical Sciences
Professional Area(s)
Genomics; led national consortia to build a community resource of regulatory elements encoded in the genomes of C. elegans and Drosophila; demonstrated positive, energetic
Citation
Pioneered use of microarray technology in genomic analysis; advanced genomic technologies to discover novel and fundamental gene regulatory mechanisms that direct germ cell function, organization, and development in C. elegans. Her laboratory has discovered the myriad of mechanisms by which transcription factors and genome organization and composition influence complex, large-scale tissue-specific regulatory programs.