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Susan Lindquist

American geneticist, molecular biologist, and university teacher1949 to 2016

Supervised 4 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Matthew Meselson as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 8 other registers.

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Students4

cited by a thesis record
Benjamin Matteson Vincent “Exploiting fitness trade-offs to prevent antifungal drug resistance”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Julie S. Valastyan “Modeling disease-related proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae : insights into alpha-synuclein and TorsinA biology”
2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Charles William O'Donnell “Ensemble modeling of [beta]-sheet proteins”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jessica C. S Brown “[GAR⁺] : a novel type of prion involved in glucose signaling and environmental sensing in S. cerevisiae”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Matthew Meselson

Students on Wikidata2

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stated by Wikidata
Allen Bryan
stated by Wikidata
Charles William O'Donnell

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataMatthew Meselson
2 steps up
stated by WikidataLinus Pauling
3 steps up
stated by WikidataRichard Chace Tolmanstated by WikidataRoscoe G. Dickinson
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Amos Noyes

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 6 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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until 1971
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
studied
until 1976
Harvard University
studied
1978 to 2001
University of Chicago
worked
from 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: geneticist, molecular biologist, university teacher
fields: molecular biology
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy
awards: William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, 2006, Harvard Centennial Medal, 2008, Otto Warburg Medal, 2008, Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize, 2013, National Medal of Science, 2009, FASEB Excellence in Science Award, 2009, Albany Medical Center Prize, 2016, Dickson Prize in Medicine, 2003, Max Delbrück Medal, 2010, E. B. Wilson Medal, 2012, Genetics Society of America Medal, 2008, Keith R. Porter Lecture, 2001, WICB Senior Award, 2004, Rosenstiel Award, 2016, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 2015, Mendel Medal, 2010, honorary doctor of Harvard University, 2010, Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, 2014, Oesper Award, 2009, Nevada Medal, 2007
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 2004, National Academy of Sciences, from 1997, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, American Philosophical Society, Royal Society of London, 2015
Wikipedia: in 17 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere10

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaSusan Lindquist
stated by WikidataWikidataQ520992
stated by WikidataVIAF20144814259926213274
stated by WikidataGND1402256574
stated by WikidataIdRef244824827
stated by WikidataISNI0000000027574216

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP99/4058
stated by WikidataScopus7103251692
stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar49368591

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project147696

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q520992,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Susan Lindquist: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q520992},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Susan Lindquist: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q520992