User:LLMHoopes
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Laura L Mays Hoopes
Personal introduction
I'm a professor emerita of molecular biology from Pomona College in Claremont, CA near Los Angeles. I have recently completed an MFA in creative writing at SDSU. Before the Nature education site Scitable was purchased by Springer, I was the Women in Science blogger and the Gene Expression Topic Room Coordinator for Scitable. My memoir, Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist came out in its second edition in 2013. I am interested in biographical articles about women scientists and some male scientists and in updating aspects of molecular biology resources on Wikipedia.
I am working with a group of General topic Fellows in summer, 2018 to learn to edit and write articles on women in science and molecular biology as a content expert. This page will be a log of my planned activities as an editor.
Current pages under consideration in July, 2018 for editing include: Nettie Stevens, Joseph Gall, Mary Osborn, Laura Landweber, Joan A. Steitz, Jeannie T. Lee, Terry Orr-Weaver, and a few others. Current pages under consideration for possible addition, or as additions to existing overview pages are: regulatory RNAs that do not use RNAi procedures to control transcription and/or translation, Council on Undergraduate Research, Mary M. Allen, Terry A. Krulwich, Beatrice Sweeney, RNA action in X-inactivation.
{{USERBOXCOI|1= Council on Undergraduate Research}} I definitely have a connection with this group but I have not been active in it since 1993 so the connection is not current. I hope that I have been fair and not overly enthusiastic about it but reviews will tell