Biography:Isaura Meza
Isaura Meza | |
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| Born | 11 May 1942 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Microbiologist |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1980) |
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| Thesis | Studies on the chemistry and structure of sea urchin microtubules (1972) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | CINVESTAV |
Isaura Meza Gómez-Palacio (born 11 May 1942) is a Mexican microbiologist who specialises in eukaryotic cytoskeletal protein genes. A 1980 Guggenheim Fellow, she worked as a professor and researcher at CINVESTAV.
Biography
She was born on 11 May 1942 in Mexico City.[1] She obtained her licentiate in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1964 and her master of science degree from CINVESTAV in 1967.[1] After spending a year as a research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1966-1967) and a year of study at University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968–1969), she obtained her PhD in Zoology from University of California, Berkeley in 1972;[1] her dissertation was titled Studies on the chemistry and structure of sea urchin microtubules.[2]
She worked at UCB as a research fellow and teaching assistant from 1969 until 1972, when she moved to the University of Geneva to become a postdoctoral fellow.[1] In 1974, she left Geneva and returned to CINVESTAV to become assistant professor of cell biology; she was promoted to associate professor in 1975,[1] before eventually being promoted to researcher emeritus.[3]
She focuses on eukaryotic cytoskeletal protein genes.[4] Her work group at UCB was among the first to describe the protein organization of the structures that enable sperm flagella to move for egg fertilization.[5] In 1980, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study tubulin genetics.[6][1] In 2017, she led a research team identifying BIRC3 for breast cancer treatment.[7]
She co-authored a popular science book named Máquinas vivientes (lit. Living machines).[8]
Mirna Servín said that her work "laid the foundations for what later became a boom in molecular biology studies of these parasites".[5] Xochitl Pilli Rodríguez Flores called her "a pioneer in the study of the amoeba cytoskeleton in our country [Mexico]".[4] In 2013, she was awarded the Omecíhuatl Medal (es).[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1980. p. 125-126. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reports_of_the_President_and_the_Treasur/4Q40AAAAIAAJ.
- ↑ Studies on the chemistry and structure of sea urchin microtubules (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley. 1972. OCLC 17929492.
- ↑ "Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional" (in es). https://cinvestav.mx/zacatenco/ie/comunicaciones/isaura-meza-g243mez-palacio.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rodríguez Flores, Xochitl Pilli. "La mujer mexicana en la ciencia" (in es). Boletín Aleación de la Red de Divulgadores de la Ciencia y la Cultura "José Antonio Alzate": 6-7. https://www.academia.edu/9323077/La_mujer_mexicana_en_la_ciencia.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Isaura Meza Gómez-Palacio: El movimiento es vida" (in es). La Jornada. 2000-09-11. https://www.jornada.com.mx/2000/09/11/cien-galeria.html.
- ↑ "Isaura Meza". https://www.gf.org/fellows/isaura-meza/.
- ↑ "Identifican gen relacionado con la resistencia a tratamientos de cáncer de mama" (in es). 2017-06-22. http://www.conacytprensa.mx/index.php/centros-conacyt/cinvestav/16462-identifican-gen-relacionado-con-la-resistencia-a-tratamientos-de-cancer-de-mama.
- ↑ "Dra. Isaura Meza" (in es). http://www.codigoradio.cultura.df.gob.mx/index.php/gente-como-uno/1755-dra-isaura-meza.
- ↑ "Medalla Omecíhuatl" (in es). https://semujeres.cdmx.gob.mx/medalla-omecihuatl/ediciones-anteriores.
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