Elena J Tucker

Elena Jane Tucker is an Australian geneticist and medical genomics researcher and a 2016 Rising Talent in the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.

Biography Tucker earned her B.S. at University of Melbourne in 2006. She earned her Ph.D. in medical genomics at the same university's Murdoch Children's Research Institute in 2011 focusing on using new approaches to genomics to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with mitochondrial disease. She continues to work there as a research fellow, investigating the molecular basis of disorders of sex development.

Most recently, her position has been Honorary Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and she works in the Reproductive Development group, focusing on the genetics of ovarian dysfunction, in particular premature ovarian insufficiency.

Selected awards 2011, Kirby Travel Award, Human Genetic Society of Australasia 2012, Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Australian Institute of Policy and Science 2016, International Rising Talents, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards 2021, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR): Rising Star Nomination

Selected publications

Tucker, E. J., Hershman, S. G., Köhrer, C., Belcher-Timme, C. A., Patel, J., Goldberger, O. A.... & Mootha, V. K. (2011). Mutations in MTFMT underlie a human disorder of formylation causing impaired mitochondrial translation. Cell metabolism, 14(3), 428-434. Tucker, E. J., Wanschers, B. F., Szklarczyk, R., Mountford, H. S., Wijeyeratne, X. W., van den Brand, M. A.... & Thorburn, D. R. (2013). Mutations in the UQCC1-interacting protein, UQCC2, cause human complex III deficiency associated with perturbed cytochrome b protein expression. PLoS genetics, 9(12), e1004034. Tucker, E. J., Grover, S. R., Bachelot, A., Touraine, P., & Sinclair, A. H. (2016). Premature ovarian insufficiency: new perspectives on genetic cause and phenotypic spectrum. Endocrine reviews, 37(6), 609-635. Tucker, E. J., Jaillard, S., Grover, S. R., van den Bergen, J., Robevska, G., Bell, K. M.... & Sinclair, A. H. (2019). TP63‐truncating variants cause isolated premature ovarian insufficiency. Human Mutation, 40(7), 886-892. Tucker, E. J., Bell, K. M., Robevska, G., van den Bergen, J., Ayers, K. L., Listyasari, N.... & Sinclair, A. H. (2022). Meiotic genes in premature ovarian insufficiency: variants in HROB and REC8 as likely genetic causes. European Journal of Human Genetics, 30(2), 219-228.