Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay was born on 10 September 1952 and is the director of Clemson University's Center for Human Genetics located on the campus of the Greenwood Genetic Center.
16 Facts About Trudy Mackay
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Trudy Mackay is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the genetics of complex traits.
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Trudy Mackay is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Trudy Mackay was formerly the William Neal Reynolds and Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University, where she specialized in quantitative genetics.
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Trudy Mackay is responsible for establishing the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel.
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Trudy Mackay received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1974 and Master of Science degree in 1976 in Biology from Dalhousie University.
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Trudy Mackay completed postgraduate study at the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in genetics awarded in 1979 for research supervised by Alan Robertson.
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Trudy Mackay's research investigates the environmental and genetic factors that influence quantitative traits.
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Trudy Mackay's work is undertaken by studying the impact of natural variants and mutations on many behavioural, morphological, physiological and life history traits in fruit flies, which she uses as a model organism.
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Trudy Mackay is the co-author with Douglas Scott Falconer of the fourth edition of the widely used and highly cited textbook, Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, published in 1996.
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Trudy Mackay was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.
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Trudy Mackay was awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal in 2004 and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2016.
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Trudy Mackay was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2021.
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Trudy Mackay is a recipient of Trinity College's Dawson Prize in Genetics in 2018.
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Trudy Mackay was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.
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Trudy Mackay became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.