Joy Bergelson

Joy Michele Bergelson is an American evolutionary biologist. She is currently the Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at New York University.^[1] Bergelson was previously and James D. Watson Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, where she chaired the department for ecology and evolution. Her research focuses on the evolution and ecology of plants.^[2]

Joy Michele Bergelson
Nationality	American
Education	ScB, M. Phil. Ph. D.
Alma mater	Brown University University of York University of Washington
Scientific career
Fields	Evolutionary biology
Institutions	University of Chicago New York University[1]
Thesis	Plant spatial pattern and the invasiveness of annual weeds (1990)

Education and career

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Metuchen, New Jersey,^[3] She graduated in 1980 from Metuchen High School, which inducted her into its hall of fame in 2017.^[4]

Bergelson graduated from Brown University with an ScB in Biology in 1984. She went on to further study as a Marshall Scholar at the University of York, receiving an MPhil in Biology in 1986 and a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 1990.^[2] Bergelson worked as a demonstrator in Ecology at the University of Oxford, before joining the faculty of the Washington University in St. Louis in 1992. She left St. Louis for Chicago in 1994.^[5]

She served as the section chair for Biology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.^[6]

Research

Bergelson is known for her research on the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, its ecology and the evolution of plant-pathogen interactions. Her early research examined interactions between insects and trees,^[7] spatial patterns in trees^[8] and weeds,^[9] and the energetic cost to plants to resist insects.^[10] Subsequently, she examined genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana,^[11][12] the genetic basis for disease resistance in plants,^[13] and polymorphisms in Arabidopsis.^[14][15] Bergelson's research has also examined genetic adaptations in plants to recent climate change.^[16]

Selected publications

• Bergelson, Joy; Purrington, Colin B. (September 1, 1996). "Surveying Patterns in the Cost of Resistance in Plants". The American Naturalist. 148 (3): 536–558. doi:10.1086/285938. ISSN 0003-0147. S2CID 85325623.
• Atwell, Susanna; Huang, Yu S.; Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J.; Willems, Glenda; Horton, Matthew; Li, Yan; Meng, Dazhe; Platt, Alexander; Tarone, Aaron M.; Hu, Tina T.; Jiang, Rong; Muliyati, N. Wayan; Zhang, Xu; Amer, Muhammad Ali; Baxter, Ivan; Brachi, Benjamin; Chory, Joanne; Dean, Caroline; Debieu, Marilyne; de Meaux, Juliette; Ecker, Joseph R.; Faure, Nathalie; Kniskern, Joel M.; Jones, Jonathan D. G.; Michael, Todd; Nemri, Adnane; Roux, Fabrice; Salt, David E.; Tang, Chunlao; Todesco, Marco; Traw, M. Brian; Weigel, Detlef; Marjoram, Paul; Borevitz, Justin O.; Bergelson, Joy; Nordborg, Magnus (June 2010). "Genome-wide association study of 107 phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines". Nature. 465 (7298): 627–631. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..627A. doi:10.1038/nature08800. PMC 3023908. PMID 20336072.
• Nordborg, Magnus; Hu, Tina T; Ishino, Yoko; Jinal Jhaveri; Toomajian, Christopher; Zheng, Honggang; Bakker, Erica; Calabrese, Peter; Gladstone, Jean; Goyal, Rana; Jakobsson, Mattias; Kim, Sung; Morozov, Yuri; Padhukasahasram, Badri; Plagnol, Vincent; Rosenberg, Noah A; Shah, Chitiksha; Wall, Jeffrey D; Wang, Jue; Zhao, Keyan; Kalbfleisch, Theodore; Schulz, Vincent; Kreitman, Martin; Bergelson, Joy (May 24, 2005). "The Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana". PLOS Biology. 3 (7): e196. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030196. PMC 1135296. PMID 15907155.

Honors and awards

• Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004^[17]
• Elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018^[5]
• Elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020^[18]

References

1. "NYU Biology Faculty Directory". New York University. April 28, 2021.
2. "Ecology & Evolution". Ecology & Evolution University of Chicago. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
3. Joy M. Bergelson, National Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 22, 202. "Bergelson was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Metuchen, NJ."
4. Tufaro, Greg. "Reception for Metuchen High School's second Hall of Fame class to be held April 15", Courier News, November 8, 2017. Accessed January 22, 2023. "Dr. Joy Bergelson, Class of ‘80; Joy Bergelson is Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago."
5. "Joy Bergelson". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
6. Science, American Association for the Advancement of (March 30, 2012). "AAAS News and Notes". Science. 335 (6076): 1593–1595. doi:10.1126/science.335.6076.1593. ISSN 0036-8075.
7. Bergelson, Joy M.; Lawton, John H. (1988). "Does Foliage Damage Influence Predation on the Insect Herbivores of Birch?". Ecology. 69 (2): 434–445. doi:10.2307/1940442. ISSN 1939-9170. JSTOR 1940442.
8. Bergelson, Joy; Crawley, Michael J. (April 1, 1992). "Herbivory and Ipomopsis aggregata: The Disadvantages of Being Eaten". The American Naturalist. 139 (4): 870–882. doi:10.1086/285362. ISSN 0003-0147. S2CID 86727918.
9. Bergelson, Joy; Newman, Jonathan A.; Floresroux, Ernesto M. (1993). "Rates of Weed Spread in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments". Ecology. 74 (4): 999–1011. doi:10.2307/1940470. ISSN 1939-9170. JSTOR 1940470.
10. Bergelson, Joy; Purrington, Colin B. (September 1, 1996). "Surveying Patterns in the Cost of Resistance in Plants". The American Naturalist. 148 (3): 536–558. doi:10.1086/285938. ISSN 0003-0147. S2CID 85325623.
11. Bergelson, Joy; Purrington, Colin B.; Wichmann, Gale (1998). "Promiscuity in transgenic plants". Nature. 395 (6697): 25. Bibcode:1998Natur.395...25B. doi:10.1038/25626. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 9738493.
12. Bergelson, Joy; Stahl, Eli; Dudek, Scott; Kreitman, Martin (March 1, 1998). "Genetic Variation Within and Among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana". Genetics. 148 (3): 1311–1323. doi:10.1093/genetics/148.3.1311. ISSN 1943-2631. PMC 1460032. PMID 9539444.
13. Stahl, Eli A.; Dwyer, Greg; Mauricio, Rodney; Kreitman, Martin; Bergelson, Joy (1999). "Dynamics of disease resistance polymorphism at the Rpm1 locus of Arabidopsis". Nature. 400 (6745): 667–671. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..667S. doi:10.1038/23260. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 10458161. S2CID 4380447.
14. Nordborg, Magnus; Hu, Tina T; Ishino, Yoko; Jhaveri, Jinal; Toomajian, Christopher; Zheng, Honggang; Bakker, Erica; Calabrese, Peter; Gladstone, Jean; Goyal, Rana; Jakobsson, Mattias (May 24, 2005). Mitchell-Olds, Tom (ed.). "The Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana". PLOS Biology. 3 (7): e196. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030196. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 1135296. PMID 15907155.
15. Bakker, Erica G.; Toomajian, Christopher; Kreitman, Martin; Bergelson, Joy (June 23, 2006). "A Genome-Wide Survey ofRGene Polymorphisms inArabidopsis". The Plant Cell. 18 (8): 1803–1818. doi:10.1105/tpc.106.042614. ISSN 1532-298X. PMC 1533970. PMID 16798885.
16. Hancock, Angela M.; Brachi, Benjamin; Faure, Nathalie; Horton, Matthew W.; Jarymowycz, Lucien B.; Sperone, F. Gianluca; Toomajian, Chris; Roux, Fabrice; Bergelson, Joy (October 7, 2011). "Adaptation to Climate Across the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome". Science. 334 (6052): 83–86. Bibcode:2011Sci...334...83H. doi:10.1126/science.1209244. PMID 21980108. S2CID 14950548.
17. "Elected Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
18. "Joy M. Bergelson". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved January 9, 2021.

External links

• Joy Bergelson publications indexed by Google Scholar