Biography
Carol Greider was born in San Diego, California on April 15th, 1961. She received her B.A. in Biology in 1983 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1987 from the University of California, Berkeley. She carried out her graduate research in the laboratory of Elizabeth Blackburn, working on telomeres, the sequences at the ends of chromosomes, in particular on the enzyme "telomere terminal transferase," known as telomerase.
Greider and Blackburn shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak.
Greider continued her research on telomerase when she came to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1988 as the second CSHL Fellow. On completion of her fellowship, she joined the CSHL faculty 1990-1992, promoted to Assistant Investigator (1990-1992), followed by Associate Investigator (1992-1994) and an Investigator (1994-1997).
In 1997, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University where she is the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. In February 2014 Greider was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, in addition to Daniel Nathans Professor, and department director for Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Greider visited UC Santa Cruz while on sabbatical leave September 2019 - May 2020.
On May 21, 2020 UC Santa Cruz announced Greider was joining their faculty as a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental (MCD) Biology. Greider began her position at UC Santa Cruz in October 2020.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Item — Box AV05, Hi8: CSHL1217
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Blackburn remembers details of her conversations with Barbara McClintock, meetings and symposia at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the changes in those meetings over time. She comments on Jim Watson's and Alexander Olivnikov's papers and contributions to the study of lambda phage DNA, and on her mentoring of scientist Carol Greider.
Elizabeth Blackburn discusses the following in her interview: Scene 1. Barbara McClintock -- Scene 2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: a stimulating...
Dates:
2000-06-01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
CSHL Meetings and Courses Symposia Oral History Interviews contain interviews conducted with 337 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences, between 2004 and 2018. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others. The collection contains video recordings. The collection is organized by year of the interviews. Different...
Dates:
2005
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
CSHL Meetings and Courses Symposia Oral History Interviews contain interviews conducted with 337 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences, between 2004 and 2018. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others. The collection contains video recordings. The collection is organized by year of the interviews. Different...
Dates:
2006
Collection
Identifier: CWG
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Carol Greider Collection is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Greider during her postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1987, and her early work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1997-1992. The collection consists of computer printouts, correspondence, course notebooks, emails [printed], graphs, journal articles, laboratory notebooks, photographs, reprints, scientific notes and x-ray films. The date range is from 1975-1992. The materials are...
Dates:
1975 - 2000
Item
Identifier: HOS/14/3
Dates:
2025-03-26 - 2025-03-29