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Susan Golden received a B.A. in Biology from the Mississippi University for Women in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Missouri in 1983. Following her postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, she joined the faculty of Biology at Texas A&M University in 1986, where she was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2003. In 2008, she became a member of the Division of Biological Sciences at UCSD. Her graduate work involved developing genetic tools for the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus (PCC 7942), a breakthrough that facilitated genetic transformation in this organism. In the early 1990s, she collaborated with C.H. Johnson and T. Kondo to demonstrate the circadian rhythms of gene expression in S. elongatus, which is now recognized as a premier model organism for studying prokaryotic circadian clocks. Golden's lab focuses on the molecular basis of timekeeping in S. elongatus, using approaches that span molecular genetics, genomics, and biochemistry to answer pivotal research questions. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Conducting research and teaching in the field of biological sciences with a focus on circadian rhythms and gene expression.
Texas A&M University • College Station, TX
Taught courses and conducted research in molecular biology and genetics.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).