Drosophila cookies baked by Bateman’s students
Biology professor Jack Bateman has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award in the amount of $797,395 for his project “Mechanisms of cis-/trans-promoter competition in Drosophila.”
Recently named the Samuel S. Butcher Assistant Professor in the Natural Sciences at Bowdoin, Bateman – who was also the lead investigator for a recent Maine INBRE grant project - studies the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to better understand how genes can be turned on and off. For the CAREER grant he is focusing on enhancers and promoters, pieces of DNA that are analogous to a locks and keys for activating genes.
The NSF CAREER award is given “in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars though outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.” In that spirit, Bateman will use the grant not only to advance scientific understanding of gene regulation through research, but also to expand his longstanding education and outreach efforts within the field of genetics.
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