Michael Young

Michael Young was born in Miami, Florida. As an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, he joined Burke Judd’s group for a summer of research. This was his introduction to Drosophila and genetics, and it stretched into a doctorate. His postdoctoral work was in the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford School of Medicine where he began to study transposable elements. He was appointed Assistant Professor and University Fellow at The Rockefeller University in 1978, and is currently Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genetics. He is also Rockefeller’s Vice President for Academic Affairs. His research at Rockefeller has focused on the molecular biology and genetics of circadian rhythms for the past 25 years. He has also studied the neurogenic genes of Drosophila.