Joy Bergelson Explained

Joy Michele Bergelson
Nationality:American
Field:Evolutionary biology
Education:ScB, M. Phil. Ph. D.
Thesis Title:Plant spatial pattern and the invasiveness of annual weeds
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22949368
Thesis Year:1990

Joy Michele Bergelson is an American evolutionary biologist. She is currently the Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at New York University. Bergelson was previously and James D. Watson Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, where she chaired the department for ecology and evolution. Her research focuses on the evolution and ecology of plants.[1]

Education and career

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Metuchen, New Jersey,[2] She graduated in 1980 from Metuchen High School, which inducted her into its hall of fame in 2017.[3]

Bergelson graduated from Brown University with an ScB in Biology in 1984. She went on to further study as a Marshall Scholar at the University of York, receiving an MPhil in Biology in 1986 and a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 1990. Bergelson worked as a demonstrator in Ecology at the University of Oxford, before joining the faculty of the Washington University in St. Louis in 1992. She left St. Louis for Chicago in 1994.

She served as the section chair for Biology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.[4]

Research

Bergelson is known for her research on the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, its ecology and the evolution of plant-pathogen interactions. Her early research examined interactions between insects and trees,[5] spatial patterns in trees[6] and weeds,[7] and the energetic cost to plants to resist insects.[8] Subsequently, she examined genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana,[9] [10] the genetic basis for disease resistance in plants,[11] and polymorphisms in Arabidopsis.[12] [13] Bergelson's research has also examined genetic adaptations in plants to recent climate change.[14]

Selected publications

Honors and awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ecology & Evolution. 2021-01-09. Ecology & Evolution University of Chicago. en. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20201127014516/https://ecologyandevolution.uchicago.edu/faculty/joy-bergelson-phd. 2020-11-27.
  2. https://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2542052.html Joy M. Bergelson
  3. Tufaro, Greg. "Reception for Metuchen High School's second Hall of Fame class to be held April 15", Courier News, November 8, 2017. Accessed January 22, 2023. "Dr. Joy Bergelson, Class of ‘80; Joy Bergelson is Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago."
  4. Science. American Association for the Advancement of. 2012-03-30. AAAS News and Notes. Science. en. 335. 6076. 1593–1595. 10.1126/science.335.6076.1593. 0036-8075.
  5. Bergelson. Joy M.. Lawton. John H.. 1988. Does Foliage Damage Influence Predation on the Insect Herbivores of Birch?. Ecology. en. 69. 2. 434–445. 10.2307/1940442. 1940442 . 1939-9170.
  6. Bergelson. Joy. Crawley. Michael J.. 1992-04-01. Herbivory and Ipomopsis aggregata: The Disadvantages of Being Eaten. The American Naturalist. 139. 4. 870–882. 10.1086/285362. 86727918 . 0003-0147.
  7. Bergelson. Joy. Newman. Jonathan A.. Floresroux. Ernesto M.. 1993. Rates of Weed Spread in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments. Ecology. en. 74. 4. 999–1011. 10.2307/1940470. 1940470 . 1939-9170.
  8. Bergelson. Joy. Purrington. Colin B.. 1996-09-01. Surveying Patterns in the Cost of Resistance in Plants. The American Naturalist. 148. 3. 536–558. 10.1086/285938. 85325623 . 0003-0147.
  9. Bergelson. Joy. Purrington. Colin B.. Wichmann. Gale. 1998. Promiscuity in transgenic plants. Nature. en. 395. 6697. 25. 10.1038/25626. 9738493 . 1998Natur.395...25B . 0028-0836. free.
  10. Bergelson. Joy. Stahl. Eli. Dudek. Scott. Kreitman. Martin. 1998-03-01. Genetic Variation Within and Among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 148. 3. 1311–1323. 10.1093/genetics/148.3.1311. 9539444 . 1460032 . 1943-2631.
  11. Stahl. Eli A.. Dwyer. Greg. Mauricio. Rodney. Kreitman. Martin. Bergelson. Joy. 1999. Dynamics of disease resistance polymorphism at the Rpm1 locus of Arabidopsis. Nature. en. 400. 6745. 667–671. 10.1038/23260. 10458161 . 1999Natur.400..667S . 4380447 . 0028-0836.
  12. Nordborg. Magnus. Hu. Tina T. Ishino. Yoko. Jhaveri. Jinal. Toomajian. Christopher. Zheng. Honggang. Bakker. Erica. Calabrese. Peter. Gladstone. Jean. Goyal. Rana. Jakobsson. Mattias. 2005-05-24. Mitchell-Olds. Tom. The Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLOS Biology. en. 3. 7. e196. 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030196. 1545-7885. 1135296. 15907155 . free .
  13. Bakker. Erica G.. Toomajian. Christopher. Kreitman. Martin. Bergelson. Joy. 2006-06-23. A Genome-Wide Survey ofRGene Polymorphisms inArabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 18. 8. 1803–1818. 10.1105/tpc.106.042614. 1532-298X. 1533970. 16798885.
  14. Hancock. Angela M.. Brachi. Benjamin. Faure. Nathalie. Horton. Matthew W.. Jarymowycz. Lucien B.. Sperone. F. Gianluca. Toomajian. Chris. Roux. Fabrice. Bergelson. Joy. 2011-10-07. Adaptation to Climate Across the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome. Science. 334. 6052. 83–86. 10.1126/science.1209244. 21980108 . 2011Sci...334...83H . 14950548 .
  15. Web site: Elected Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2021-01-09. www.aaas.org. en.
  16. Web site: Joy Bergelson. 2021-01-09. www.nasonline.org.
  17. Web site: Joy M. Bergelson. 2021-01-09. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. en.

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