William Charles Earnshaw is

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of Chromosome Dynamics at the

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, where he has been a

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since 1996.

Education

Earnshaw was educated at

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Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philant ...

and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was awarded a PhD in 1977 for research on Enterobacteria phage P22 supervised by Jonathan King.

Career and research

Earnshaw completed

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at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

with Aaron Klug and

Ron Laskey Ronald Alfred Laskey (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher. Career and research Laskey was the Charles Darwin Professor of Embryology at the University of Cambridge. In 1991, he co-founded the Wellcome Trust ...

and at the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centur ...

with Ulrich Laemmli. Following this, he moved to the

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...

, working in Tom Pollard's department of cell biology for 13 years. His former doctoral students include Jan Bergmann, Anca Petruti-Mot, Susana Ribeiro, Laura Wood, Zhenjie Xu, and Nikolaj Zuleger.

Awards and honours

Earnshaw was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His certificate of election reads: Earnshaw is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), the

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(FMedSci) and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Earnshaw, William Charles Living people Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Year of birth missing (living people) Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni