Barbara Meyer, Ph.D.

Dr. Meyer is a Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Genetics and Development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California-Berkeley. She holds a joint appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Meyer is also a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology.

Dr. Meyer received her A.B. in Biology at Stanford University in California, her M.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of California-Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Meyer completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Sydney Brenner at the M.R.C. Lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, where she studied sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Her expertise is nationally and internationally recognized and she holds appointments to advisory boards for the Max Planck Institut für Moleculare Genetik in Berlin, the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, the University of California President's Council on the National Laboratories, and the Cold Spring Harbor Graduate Ph.D. Program. Dr. Meyer is a member of the Genetics Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Developmental Biology, and the American Society for Cell Biology. She sits on the editorial boards of several journals in the area of development and genetics. Dr. Meyer has over 50 published articles in peer-reviewed journals.