Janet Rossant, an expert in molecular genetics, will deliver the 28th Annual Institute of Molecular Biology’s Streisinger Lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, in 100 Willamette Hall. Her talk will explore “Single Cell Analysis in Early Mammalian Development.”

Rossant is a senior scientist in the developmental and stem cell biology program and chief of research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. She is also a professor in the departments of molecular genetics, obstetrics/gynaecology and pediatrics at the University of Toronto.

Rossant trained at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, and has been in Canada since 1977 – first at Brock University, and from 1985 to 2005 at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital.

Rossant was awarded the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology and the Conklin Medal from the Society for Developmental Biology in 2007.

Her research interests center on understanding the genetic control of normal and abnormal development in the early mouse embryo using both cellular and genetic manipulation techniques. She is a fellow of both the Royal Societies of London and Canada and a foreign associate to the National Academy of Science. 

- from the UO Office of Strategic Communications