Susan Celniker

Susan E. Celniker is an American biologist, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an adjunct professor Comparative Biochemistry department at UC Berkeley. She is the co-director of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project.

She has pioneered ''Drosophila'' functional genomics, the use of the fruit fly as a genetic model organism for human and environmental health, and launched studies of the transcriptome for NHGRI's modENCODE (which serves as an encyclopedia of DNA Elements) project. Her work was pivotal in making the ''Drosophila'' genome one of the best curated animal genomes, and a widely used model for genomic research. Provided by Wikipedia