Biography:Joy M. Bergelson

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Short description: American biologist


Joy Michele Bergelson
NationalityAmerican
EducationScB, M. Phil. Ph. D.
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
Institutions
ThesisPlant spatial pattern and the invasiveness of annual weeds (1990)

Joy M. Bergelson is an American evolutionary biologist. She is currently the Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at New York University.[1] Bergelson was previously and James D. Watson Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, where she chaired the department for ecology and evolution. Her research focuses on the evolution and ecology of plants.[2]

Education and career

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Metuchen, New Jersey,[3] Bergelson graduated in 1980 from Metuchen High School, which inducted her into its hall of fame in 2017.[4]

Bergelson graduated from Brown University with an ScB in Biology in 1984. She went on to further study as a Marshall Scholar at the University of York, receiving an MPhil in Biology in 1986 and a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 1990.[2] Bergelson worked as a demonstrator in Ecology at the University of Oxford, before joining the faculty of the Washington University in St. Louis in 1992. She left St. Louis for Chicago in 1994.[5]

She served as the section chair for Biology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.[6]

Research

Bergelson is known for her research on the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, its ecology and the evolution of plant-pathogen interactions. Her early research examined interactions between insects and trees,[7] spatial patterns in trees[8] and weeds,[9] and the energetic cost to plants to resist insects.[10] Subsequently, she examined genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana,[11][12] the genetic basis for disease resistance in plants,[13] and polymorphisms in Arabidopsis.[14][15] Bergelson's research has also examined genetic adaptations in plants to recent climate change.[16]

Selected publications

Honors and awards

  • Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004[17]
  • Elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018[5]
  • Elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020[18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "NYU Biology Faculty Directory". 2021-04-28. http://as.nyu.edu/biology/directory.joy-bergelson.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ecology & Evolution" (in en). https://ecologyandevolution.uchicago.edu/faculty/joy-bergelson-phd. 
  3. ↑ Joy M. Bergelson, National Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 22, 202. "Bergelson was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Metuchen, NJ."
  4. ↑ Tufaro, Greg. "Reception for Metuchen High School's second Hall of Fame class to be held April 15", Courier News, November 8, 2017. Accessed January 22, 2023. "Dr. Joy Bergelson, Class of ‘80; Joy Bergelson is Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago."
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Joy Bergelson". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2542052.html. 
  6. ↑ Science, American Association for the Advancement of (2012-03-30). "AAAS News and Notes" (in en). Science 335 (6076): 1593–1595. doi:10.1126/science.335.6076.1593. ISSN 0036-8075. 
  7. ↑ Bergelson, Joy M.; Lawton, John H. (1988). "Does Foliage Damage Influence Predation on the Insect Herbivores of Birch?" (in en). Ecology 69 (2): 434–445. doi:10.2307/1940442. ISSN 1939-9170. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1940442. 
  8. ↑ Bergelson, Joy; Crawley, Michael J. (1992-04-01). "Herbivory and Ipomopsis aggregata: The Disadvantages of Being Eaten". The American Naturalist 139 (4): 870–882. doi:10.1086/285362. ISSN 0003-0147. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/285362. 
  9. ↑ Bergelson, Joy; Newman, Jonathan A.; Floresroux, Ernesto M. (1993). "Rates of Weed Spread in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments" (in en). Ecology 74 (4): 999–1011. doi:10.2307/1940470. ISSN 1939-9170. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1940470. 
  10. ↑ Bergelson, Joy; Purrington, Colin B. (1996-09-01). "Surveying Patterns in the Cost of Resistance in Plants". The American Naturalist 148 (3): 536–558. doi:10.1086/285938. ISSN 0003-0147. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/285938. 
  11. ↑ Bergelson, Joy; Purrington, Colin B.; Wichmann, Gale (1998). "Promiscuity in transgenic plants" (in en). Nature 395 (6697): 25. doi:10.1038/25626. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 9738493. Bibcode: 1998Natur.395...25B. 
  12. ↑ Bergelson, Joy; Stahl, Eli; Dudek, Scott; Kreitman, Martin (1998-03-01). "Genetic Variation Within and Among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana". Genetics 148 (3): 1311–1323. doi:10.1093/genetics/148.3.1311. ISSN 1943-2631. PMID 9539444. PMC 1460032. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/148.3.1311. 
  13. ↑ Stahl, Eli A.; Dwyer, Greg; Mauricio, Rodney; Kreitman, Martin; Bergelson, Joy (1999). "Dynamics of disease resistance polymorphism at the Rpm1 locus of Arabidopsis" (in en). Nature 400 (6745): 667–671. doi:10.1038/23260. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 10458161. Bibcode: 1999Natur.400..667S. http://www.nature.com/articles/23260. 
  14. ↑ Nordborg, Magnus; Hu, Tina T; Ishino, Yoko; Jhaveri, Jinal; Toomajian, Christopher; Zheng, Honggang; Bakker, Erica; Calabrese, Peter et al. (2005-05-24). Mitchell-Olds, Tom. ed. "The Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana" (in en). PLOS Biology 3 (7): e196. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030196. ISSN 1545-7885. PMID 15907155. 
  15. ↑ Bakker, Erica G.; Toomajian, Christopher; Kreitman, Martin; Bergelson, Joy (2006-06-23). "A Genome-Wide Survey ofRGene Polymorphisms inArabidopsis". The Plant Cell 18 (8): 1803–1818. doi:10.1105/tpc.106.042614. ISSN 1532-298X. PMID 16798885. PMC 1533970. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.106.042614. 
  16. ↑ Hancock, Angela M.; Brachi, Benjamin; Faure, Nathalie; Horton, Matthew W.; Jarymowycz, Lucien B.; Sperone, F. Gianluca; Toomajian, Chris; Roux, Fabrice et al. (2011-10-07). "Adaptation to Climate Across the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome". Science 334 (6052): 83–86. doi:10.1126/science.1209244. PMID 21980108. Bibcode: 2011Sci...334...83H. https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1209244. 
  17. ↑ "Elected Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science" (in en). https://www.aaas.org/fellows/listing. 
  18. ↑ "Joy M. Bergelson" (in en). https://www.amacad.org/person/joy-m-bergelson. 

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