James C. Carrington

Early life and education Carrington was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1960. He attended the University of California, Riverside where he studied biology and worked as an undergraduate research assistant for William Dawson, a plant virologist. After graduating, he pursued graduate training at the University of California, Berkeley working in the lab of T. Jack Morris and graduated in 1986. After completing his PhD, Carrington was a postdoc at North Carolina State University in the research group of William Dougherty until 1988. identifying roles for these gene silencing mechanisms in both plant development and chromatin state maintenance.

Recognition In 2000 Carrington received the Ruth Allen Award from the American Phytopathological Society. In 2005 Carrington was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2008 Carrington was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.