Michael Rosbash, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Rosbash

American geneticist and chronobiologist

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1944

Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Profession: university teacher, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist.
Rosbash is a professor at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990.
In 1998, they discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then determining the genetics behind the mutation.
Rosbash was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Along with Michael W.
Young and Jeffrey C.
Hall, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".