Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is a scientist in
comparative genomics, specializing in mammalian genetics. She is the Scientific Director of vertebrate genomics at the
Broad Institute and a professor in comparative genomics at
Uppsala University. In 2010 she co-founded
Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) together with
Mathias Uhlén and acted as Co-Director until 2015. As the leader of the Broad Institute's Mammalian Genome Initiative she has led the effort to sequence and analyze the genomes of various mammals, including
mouse,
dog,
chimpanzee,
horse,
rabbit and
opossum. She has researched extensively on the genetics of
dogs, identifying genes and
genetic variants important in disease susceptibility, morphology and behavior.
In 2015, she started the
Zoonomia Project, named after the medical work (1794–96) by
Erasmus Darwin.
Lindblad-Toh is elected to the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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