Biology Professor Michael Lampson Elected 2024 AAAS Fellow

Michael Lampson, a professor in the Department of Biology, was elected as a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow, one of six across Penn given the honor. Overall, more than 500 scientists, engineers, and innovators across 24 different fields are part of this class of fellows, recognized for their “scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.”  
 
Lampson is being recognized by the AAAS for contributions to cell biology in the biological sciences, particularly for advancing scientists’ understanding of chromosome segregation in cell division and inheritance through the germline.
 
Broadly, he studies the cell biology of meiotic drive—how certain genetic elements “cheat” to increase their representation—as well as centromere inheritance through the germline, optogenetic tools for cell biology, and the mechanics of cell division. He has published in Nature Cell Biology, the Journal of Cell Biology, Cell, Current Biology, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and many other academic journals. He joined Penn’s faculty in 2007 and in 2008 was named a Searle Scholar, a program that makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.
 
Other Penn honoress include Dolores Albarracín, Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor, who holds a secondary appointment in Penn Arts & Sciences; Tony Cai, Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Wharton; Noam A. Cohen, Ralph Butler Professor for Medical Research at the Perelman School of Medicine; Edward A. Stadtmauer, Roseman, Tarte, Harrow, and Shaffer Families’ President’s Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine; and Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
 
Read the full announcement on Penn Today.