Norbert Perrimon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Norbert Perrimon

geneticist

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1958

Place of Birth: Bosguérard-de-Marcouville, Normandy, France

Profession: researcher, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Norbert Perrimon (born October 24, 1958) is a geneticist and developmental biologist at Harvard Medical School.
He is known for developing a number of techniques for use of Drosophila, as well as specific substantive contributions to signal transduction and developmental biology.
Perrimon co-developed the GAL4/UAS system method, described as “a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife”, with Andrea Brand to control gene expression.
With Tze-bin Chou he developed the FLP-FRT DFS method to analyze the maternal effect of zygotic lethal mutations.
With Jianquan Ni, he developed and improved methods for in vivo RNAi.
His lab has pioneered high-throughput whole-genome RNAi screening.In 2003 he created the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center at Harvard Medical School and in 2008, he initiated the Transgenic RNAi Project to generate transgenic RNAi lines for the community using optimized shRNA vectors that his lab developed.