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Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
Susan L. Lindquist (born June 5, 1949, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died October 27, 2016, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American molecular biologist who made key discoveries concerning protein folding and who was among the first to discover that in yeast, inherited traits can be passed to offspring via misfolded proteins known as prions. Lindquist received a bachelor’s degree (1971) in microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate (1976) in biology from Harvard University. She then became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, where she later joined the faculty (1978) of the department of molecular genetics and ...(100 of 643 words)