Rosemary Jeanne Redfield is a microbiologist associated with the

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where she worked as a faculty member in the Department of Zoology from 1993 until retiring in 2021.

Education

Redfield completed her undergraduate degree in biochemistry at

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. She continued her education at

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where she completed her MSc in 1980. Her thesis titled, "Methylation and chromatin conformation of adenovirus type 12 DNA sequences in transformed cells," dealt with the chromatin structure and SDNA methylation. Redfield received her PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University under

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Research and career

Redfield completed

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work at Harvard University with Richard Charles Lewontin and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with Hamilton O. Smith, an American microbiologist and 1978 Nobel Laureate. She played an early role in the refutation of the GFAJ-1 "arsenic life" results of

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. She retired in 2021.

Select publications

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Awards

* CIHR Grant (1999) - Regulation of competence in haemophilus influenzae * CIHR Grant (2012) - Regulation of CRP-S promoters in H. Influenzae and E. Coli * Nominated by ''

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'' as one of

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people who mattered in 2011.

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