Shirleen Roeder

Shirleen Roeder is a geneticist and was Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and HHMI investigator in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department at Yale University before her retirement in 2012; in 2018 she is Professor Emeritus there. She is noted for identifying and characterizing the yeast genes that regulate the process of meiosis with particular emphasis on synapsis. She discovered two distinct processes that regulate the recombination between chromosomes in meiosis and also a process inhibiting recombination. Shirleen Roeder was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.  She was chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2010.