Eileen Southgate
Eileen Southgate is a British biologist who mapped the complete nervous system of the roundworm "Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) ," together with John White, Nichol Thomson, and Sydney Brenner. The work, done largely by hand-tracing thousands of serial section electron micrographs, was the first complete nervous system map of any animal and it helped establish "C. elegans" as a model organism. Among other projects carried out as a laboratory assistant at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), Southgate contributed to work on solving the structure of hemoglobin with Max Perutz and John Kendrew, and investigating the causes of sickle cell disease with Vernon Ingram.
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roundworm
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Caenorhabditis elegans
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John White
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Sydney Brenner
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Medical Research Council
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Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Max Perutz
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John Kendrew
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sickle cell disease
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Vernon Ingram
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Eileen Southgate
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