Sabeeha Sabanali Merchant was born on 1959 and is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
22 Facts About Sabeeha Merchant
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Sabeeha Merchant was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
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Sabeeha Merchant was unsure what to specialise in, and took an aptitude test at the age of 12.
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At the age of fifteen, Sabeeha Merchant started university at St Xavier's College, where she was one of five women in a class of 300.
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Sabeeha Merchant majored in molecular biology and earned her bachelor's degree in 1979.
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Sabeeha Merchant joined the Enzyme Institute to work as Henry A Lardy's secretary, but he encouraged her to apply for graduate programs.
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Sabeeha Merchant worked alongside Bruce Selman on the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
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Sabeeha Merchant studied how cells detect the levels of copper and developed antibodies.
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Sabeeha Merchant was the first to demonstrate that the RNA for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastocyanin is produced when copper is available.
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Sabeeha Merchant used pulse-chase analysis to show that whilst plastocyanin is continuously translated, it becomes degraded in systems without enough copper.
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Sabeeha Merchant showed that the RNA of cytochrome c6, an iron-based protein, is only present in copper deficient cells.
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Sabeeha Merchant showed that chlamydomonas contained cytochrome c6, which could step in during photosynthesis if needed.
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In 1987 Sabeeha Merchant moved to the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Sabeeha Merchant discovered that the regulator for plastocyanin and cytochrome c regulation was CRR1.
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Sabeeha Merchant worked with Todd Yeates on the structure and genetics of plastocyanin and cytochrome c, uncovering the crystal structures of both proteins.
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Sabeeha Merchant was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal for her contributions to the assembly of metalloenzymes.
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Sabeeha Merchant spent 2012 on a sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.
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Sabeeha Merchant was appointed director of the Institute for Genomics and Proteomics at UCLA in 2014.
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Sabeeha Merchant served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2017.
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Sabeeha Merchant moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 2018.
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Sabeeha Merchant's lab continue to investigate the metabolism of iron and copper, as well as comparative genomics of algae and bioenergy.
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Sabeeha Merchant serves on the Board of Directors of Annual Reviews.