Gertrud (Trudi) Schüpbach, Ph.D.

Gertrud (Trudi) Schüpbach is the Henry Fairfield Osborn Professor of Biology Emerita, and Professor of Molecular Biology Emerita at Princeton University. She is a developmental geneticist known for her work of characterization of mutations that affect oogenesis and early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Her work uncovered signaling events taking place in oogenesis that establish the major axes of the egg and embryo. She also found that a meiotic checkpoint operates in oogenesis that is important for DNA repair, and, in addition, regulates developmental events. Schupbach was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1950, and performed her graduate studies at the University of Zurich. She moved to Princeton University in 1981 and became a faculty member there in 1990. She was an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She served as president of the Genetics Society of America, and as president of the North American Drosophila Board. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Association. She has received the Edwin Grant Conklin Medal of the Society of Developmental Biology and the Amory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a honorary degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.