13 Facts About Michael Rosbash

Michael Morris Rosbash was born on March 7,1944 and is an American geneticist and chronobiologist.

Michael Rosbash was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.

Michael Rosbash's father was a cantor, which, in Judaism, is a person who chants worship services.

Michael Rosbash's family moved to Boston when he was two years old, and he has been an avid Red Sox fan ever since.

Michael Rosbash graduated from Caltech in 1965 with a degree in chemistry, spent a year at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris on the Fulbright Scholarship, and obtained a doctoral degree in biophysics in 1970 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Sheldon Penman.

Michael Rosbash is married to fellow scientist Nadja Abovich and he has a stepdaughter named Paula and daughter named Tanya.

Michael Rosbash began studying mRNA processing as a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From this experimental data, Michael Rosbash, Hall, and Hardin hypothesized that PER protein is involved in a negative feedback loop that controls per mRNA levels, and that this transcription-translation feedback loop is a central feature of the Drosophila circadian clock.

In 1992, Michael Rosbash again collaborated with Jeffrey Hall and Paul Hardin to more closely examine the mechanisms of the TTFL.

In more recent years, Michael Rosbash has been working on the brain-neuronal aspects of circadian rhythms.

Michael Rosbash has researched the effects of light on certain neuronal groups and has found that one subgroup is light-sensitive to lights on and another is light-sensitive to lights off.

Today, Michael Rosbash continues to research mRNA processing and the genetic mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms.

Michael Rosbash has published an amusing reflection on his life in science.