Cheryll Anne Tickle was born on 18 January 1945 and is a British scientist, known for her work in developmental biology and specifically for her research into the process by which vertebrate limbs develop ab ovo.
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Cheryll Tickle is an emeritus professor at the University of Bath.
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Cheryll Tickle worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, as a lecturer and reader at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and a reader and professor at University College London.
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Cheryll Tickle then moved to the University of Dundee in 1998, where she became Foulerton Professor of the Royal Society in 2000, and moved again to the University of Bath in 2007, retaining the Foulerton Professor title.
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Cheryll Tickle worked alongside Eddy De Robertis and Denis Duboule to look at Hox gene expression in developing limbs to relate it to chicken wing patterns.
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Cheryll Tickle worked with Gail Martin and Lee Niswander in 1994 to find that fibroblast growth factors are what is used by the apical ectodermal ridge for signaling.
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Cheryll Tickle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2001.
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Cheryll Tickle serves as a governor of the Caledonian Research Foundation.
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Cheryll Tickle demonstrated a quantitative relationship between the signal from the polarizing region in the embryo limb and the pattern digits, and that a similar signal was present in mammals.
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Cheryll Tickle discovered that local application of retinoic acid can mimic the signal from the polarizing region.
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Cheryll Tickle has now shown that the signal from the apical ridge which is essential for limb development is a fibroblast growth factor.
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Cheryll Tickle's work is characterized by outstanding experimental skill, design and interpretation.