Allan C. Spradling is an United States 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. ref name HHMI cite web url http www.hhmi.org research investigators spradling bio.html title Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D. accessdate 2009 10 25 ref He is considered a leading researcher in the Developmental biology 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. ref name HHMI He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine . ref name HHMI Spradling obtained an A.B. in physics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in cell biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . ref name HHMI Spradling and American fellow American geneticist Gerald M. Rubin are considered pioneers in the field of genetics for their work in the early 1980s with their idea to attach a gene to a Drosophila transposon , P elements , known to insert itself into fruit fly s chromosomes. ref name extreme science Cite book last1 Jedicke first1 Peter title Extreme science transplanting your head and other feats of the future date 2001 publisher St. Martin s Griffin location New York isbn 978 0 312 26819 0 pages ref From this research came work from other scientists on transposons as a tool for genetic alterations in organisms. ref name extreme science In 2008 Spradling was awarded the Gruber Prize in Genetics for his work on the Drosophila genome and continues his work in investigating novel technological approaches to genetics, egg development and stem cell s. References reflist DEFAULTSORT Spradling, Allan C. Category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences ... more details
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