Allan C. Spradling

Who is this?

Allan C. Spradling is an American scientist and principal investigator at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who studies egg development in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a fruit fly. He is considered a leading researcher in the developmental genetics of the fruit fly egg and has developed a number of techniques in his career that have led to greater understanding of fruit fly genetics including contributions to sequencing its genome. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Career

1. 1949
   Born
2. 1985
   Won NAS Award in Molecular Biology
3. 1989
   Won Genetics Society of America Medal
4. 2003
   Won George W. Beadle Award
5. 2003
   Won Edwin Grant Conklin Medal
6. 2008
   Won Gruber Prize in Genetics
7. Member of National Academy of Sciences
8. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9. Member of American Philosophical Society

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Kalamazoo
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: geneticist, university teacher