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Julie Ahringer
Julie Ahringer is a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow and member of the Genetics Department at the Ahringer Lab Gurdon Institute, Universty of Cambridge. She completed her Phd at the University of Wisconsin while working with Judith Kimble. She carried out postdoctoral work at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge with John White.

Early Career
Julie Ahringer became a group leader in the Department of Genetics in Cambridge in 1996, then moved to the Gurdon Institute in 1998. Her work involved carrying out the first systematic inactivation of the majority of genes in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode worm) by constructing and screening a genome-wide RNAi library for it.

Research
Her current research group studies the regulation of chromatin structure and the developmental function in transcription and post-transcriptional events using the nematode C. elegans as a model to address different areas of basic biology. The Ahringer Lab research is funded by Wellcome Trust.

Membership and Awards
Julie was elected to be a member of EMBO in 2003 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007, and she received the Francis Crick lecture prize of the Royal Society in 2004. She is the member of the Scientific Advisory Board along with many other eminent scientists