Sue Jinks-Robertson is an American professor of genetics and microbiology.[1] She is currently a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the Duke University School of Medicine. In May 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[2] [3] She has published over 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.[4]
Jinks-Robertson grew up in the Florida panhandle.[5] She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia in 1977. In 1983, she obtained a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied ribosome biosynthesis in E. coli with Masayasu Nomura. She was a postdoctoral researcher with Tom Petes at the University of Chicago. From 1986 to 2006 she was a faculty member in the Biology Department at Emory University. In 2006, she moved to Duke University.
Jinks-Robertson studies topics in DNA repair, homologous recombination, and transcription-associated mutagenesis, using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.
Jinks-Robertson was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2010, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.[6] She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Jinks-Robertson was Treasurer of the Genetics Society of America from 2014–2016.[7] She is currently an Associate Editor for the journal DNA Repair.[8] She is also a member of the Editorial Board of PLoS Genetics.[9]