Anne Ferguson-Smith

**Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith** CBE&#x20;FRS&#x20;FMedSci  (an haife ta a ranar 23 ga watan Yulin shekara ta 1961) masanin ilimin kwayoyin halitta ce. Ita ce Babban Shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya da Kimiyya ta Biotechnology (BBSRC),  Arthur Balfour Farfesa na Genetics kuma tsohon Mataimakin Shugaban Bincike da Hadin gwiwar Kasa da Kasa a Jami'ar Cambridge. Tsohuwar shugabar Sashen Genetics a Jami'ar Cambridge, ita Fellow ce ta Kwalejin Darwin, Cambridge kuma tana aiki a matsayin Shugaba na Kwalejin Genetics .   

Ferguson-Smith tana da iko a kan kwayar halitta da kuma kula da aikin kwayar halitta a cikin kiwon lafiya da cututtuka, kuma an san ta da aikinta a kan tasirin asalin iyaye da hanyoyin epigenetic. Ayyukanta sun gano hanyoyin da aka tsara ta hanyar epigenetically a cikin ci gaba da kuma a kan rayuwar rayuwa, kuma sun gano maɓallin hanyoyin da *a cikin rayuwa* da ke cikin kula da jihohin epigenetic. Ta kuma bincika sadarwa tsakanin muhalli da kwayar halitta tare da tasirin kiwon lafiya, cututtuka da gado.

## Ilimi
An haifi Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith a ranar 23 ga Yuli 1961 a Baltimore, Maryland, Amurka.  Ta yi karatu a Jami'ar Glasgow  inda aka ba ta digiri na farko a fannin ilmin halitta. Ta koma sashen ilmin halitta a Jami'ar Yale don gudanar da PhD don gano Kwayoyin halitta Hox na mutum da kuma nuna halayen Hox na dabbobi masu shayarwa, wanda Frank Ruddle ke kula da shi.

## Ayyuka da bincike
Ferguson-Smith ta gudanar da bincike na postdoctoral tare da Azim Surani a Jami'ar Cambridge daga 1989 zuwa 1994, inda ta fara nazarin kwayoyin halitta akan buga kwayoyin halitta - tsarin da ke haifar da bayyana kwayoyin halitta bisa ga asalin iyayensu. Kungiyar ta gano daya daga cikin kwayoyin halitta na farko, kuma ta nuna cewa an tsara tsarin ta hanyar DNA methylation.

Binciken da ta biyo baya a Ma'aikatar Ci gaban Jiki da Neuroscience [1] (tsohon Anatomy) a Jami'ar Cambridge ta gano ayyuka don, da hanyoyin sarrafawa na, kwafin kwayoyin halitta, kuma ta ba da gudummawa ga kafa shi a matsayin abin koyi don fahimtar ikon epigenetic na aikin kwayar halitta mai shayarwa. [2] Wannan aikin ya haifar da halayyar hanyoyin da ke da muhimmanci a ci gaban dabbobi masu shayarwa da ci gaba, a cikin tsari na metabolism, da kuma kula da neurogenesis na manya.[3][4]

A shekara ta 2013 an nada ta Farfesa kuma Shugabar Sashen Genetics  a Jami'ar Cambridge kuma ta zama Farfesa na bakwai na Arthur Balfour na Genetics a shekarar 2015. Binciken ta na ci gaba da ƙirƙirar alaƙa tsakanin jerin DNA, gyare-gyaren epigenetic da Tsarin kwayar halitta, da tasirin su akan phenotype; da hanyoyin da tasirin gado na epigenetic.

### Daraja da kyaututtuka
An zabi Ferguson-Smith a matsayin Fellow na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Kiwon Lafiya (FMedSci) a shekara ta 2002, [1] an ba ta lambar yabo ta EMBO a shekara ta 2006 [2] kuma an zabe ta Fellow na Royal Society (FRS) a shekara de 2017 [3] Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Suffrage Science a shekara ta 2014 kuma an ba ta Buchanan Medal na Royal Society a shekara ta 2021.[4] A shekara ta 2024, ta sami lambar yabo ta Wilbur Cross daga Jami'ar Yale . [5]

An nada ta Kwamandan Order of the British Empire (CBE) a cikin girmamawar ranar haihuwar 2023 don hidimomi ga binciken likita.  Ita ce shugabar zartarwa ta Biotechnology da Biological Sciences Research Council . 

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Ferguson-Smith ta auri Mark Gregory McHarg a shekarar 1988, tare da ita tana da ɗa da 'yar. Ita 'yar Malcolm Ferguson-Smith ce, ita ma masanin ilimin kwayoyin halitta ce.

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