Madelaine Bartlett

Professor Madelaine Bartlett is a group leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University. Before moving to SLCU, Prof. Bartlett was a faculty member in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her postdoctoral work was with Prof. Clinton Whipple at Brigham Young University, where she worked on the developmental genetics of maize, and molecular evolution. Her PhD is from the University of California Berkeley, advised by Prof. Chelsea Specht, where she worked on the evolution of floral development in tropical monocots. Her undergraduate degree in genetics and molecular biology is from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she grew up. Prof. Bartlett’s work as a researcher and scholar has been recognized by multiple awards, including the Marcus Rhoades award from the Maize Genetics Cooperation, and the Emerging Leader Award from the Botanical Society of America.