About Marja Timmermans
Born 1964. Marja Timmermans is a Dutch developmental biologist, researcher and geneticist.
Marja C. P. Timmermans (born 1964) is a Dutch plant geneticist. Her research focuses on how leaves in plants develop on a molecular biological level.
Timmermans studied biology at Rutgers University and Yale University. From 1998 she was affiliated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she became an assistant professor in 2001 and a full professor in 2009. In 2015 she received a Humboldt Professorship and moved to the University of Tübingen.
In 2020 she was elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Who is Marja Timmermans?
Dutch plant geneticist
When was Marja Timmermans born?
Marja Timmermans was born in 1964 in Dongen.
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Marja Timmermans is a developmental biologist, researcher and geneticist.
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Marja Timmermans is Dutch.
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