Lynne M. Angerer

Lynne Marie Musgrave Angerer (December 7, 1944 – March 30, 2013) was a developmental biologist most notable for research with sea urchin development during her time spent as Head of the Developmental Mechanisms (NIDCR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She worked at the University of Rochester and received her PhD at Johns Hopkins University studying chromatin structures. Both of these procedures she developed are now the industry standard.

Angerer also discovered that specific neurons derive from a unique tissue in an organism's gut, this finding challenged the central dogma which previously stated that neurons only derived from embryonic tissues. Angerer and her husband Robert played a major role in the sequencing the sea urchin genome for the first time. The sequences that she found are used widely in sea urchin studies.