Graeme Mardon

Dr. Graeme Mardon received his B.S. in 1980 with a double major in Biology and Chemistry from Haverford College. Following a four-year research associate position with Dr. Harold E. Varmus studying the viral oncogene src at the University of California in San Francisco, Dr. Mardon began graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 in the laboratory of Dr. David C. Page where he studied genes located in the sex-determining region of the mouse Y chromosome. Dr. Mardon then conducted his postdoctoral work with Dr. Gerald M. Rubin at the University of California in Berkeley from 1990 to 1994 studying genes required for normal eye development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Dr. Mardon joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in 1994 where he has established a research program studying the molecular genetics of developmental neurobiology using both the fruit fly Drosophila and the mouse as animal model systems. Over the last decade, Dr. Mardon has employed genomics approaches to study retinal development in Drosophila and humans and more recently to study TB and AIDS in African children.

January 2014