Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, United States
William Jeffery is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Jeffery received his PhD from the University of Iowa and was a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Tufts University School of Medicine. He was previously a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (Zoology), The University of California, Davis (Molecular and Cellular Biology), and The Pennsylvania State University (Biology). Dr. Jeffery studies phenomena at the interface of development and evolution. He has pioneered use of the cavefish Astyanax mexicanus as a model system in EvoDevo research, including the evolution of albinism, eye degenration, and changes in left-right aymmetry. He has been a Director of the Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, an endowed Regent’s Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, Head of Biology at The Pennsylvania State University and at The University of Maryland, College Park, and President of the Society for Developmental Biology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992, received the Karst Waters Research Medal in 2010, and the Alexander Kowalevsky International Medal for distinguished contributions to Evolutionary Developmental Biology in 2012.
Left-Right Visceral Asymmetry: Evolution in the Cavefish Model System
Saturday, March 25, 2023
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM US EST
