Joan A. Steitz
Joan Argetsinger Steitz Elaine ( born January 26, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American biochemist and professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Life
Joan Steitz acquired in 1963 at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Science Foundation in Arlington County, Virginia and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. From 1970 to 1978 she was assistant professor (1970 Assistant Professor, 1974 Associate Professor ) and since 1978 Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut - interrupted by stays abroad at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and a research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) in Pasadena, California.
Joan A. Steitz Thomas A. Steitz is married to who in 2009 received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The couple has a son.
Work
Steitz was a pioneer in the field of RNA research. Discovered the snRNP complexes and their function in connection with the removal of non-coding portions of the pre-mRNA and the joining of coding portions ( splicing ). Recent work dealing with the effect of regulatory RNA of different viruses on genetic material of the host cell.