| RefNo | EC/2024/80 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Lehmann, Ruth: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2024 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Ruth Lehmann as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Foreign Member, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Ruth Lehmann is distinguished for her pioneering studies of the mechanisms underlying patterning of the embryo and development of the germ line in insects. Using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system, her studies established the importance of mRNA localisation for the spatial restriction of gene function in specifying antero-posterior body axis polarity. She showed how germ cell migration is controlled by lipid-based signalling pathways and developed a framework of gonad morphogenesis and homeostasis. She uncovered chromatin-based regulatory principles for the control of transposable elements and revealed the role of developmentally controlled mitochondrial fission in germ line mitochondrial selection. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |