Himla Soodyall
Himla (Himladevi) Soodyall (b Durban, 1963 ) bụ onye South African geneticist na-etinye aka n'ịchọta ụfọdụ n'ime usoro mkpụrụ ndụ ihe nketa mmadụ kachasị ochie, na-elekwasị anya na Sub-Saharan Africa. Ọrụ ya na DNA egosiwo na ndịda Afrịka bụ mpaghara kachasị mma nke mmalite nke ụdị mmadụ.
Ọ bụ Onyeisi nke Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service na Mahadum Witwatersrand.[1] E nyere ya onyinye ọla nchara nke Mapungubwe na 2005 maka "onyinye pụrụ iche ya na ngalaba sayensị" na South Africa.
Mmụta
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Soodyall na Durban ma gụọ akwụkwọ na Gandhi-Desai High School tupu ọ nweta BSc na BScHons na Mahadum Durban-Westville na MSc na biotechnology na Mahadụ Witwatersrand. E nwetara PhD ya, na ọnụ ọgụgụ mmadụ na mkpụrụ ndụ ihe nketa evolushọn, na 1993 n'okpuru nlekọta Trefor Jenkins.
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Soodyall nọrọ afọ anọ na Fogarty International Fellowship[1] (site na National Institutes of Health na United States) na Mahadum Pennsylvania State na-eme nnyocha postdoctoral na Mark Stoneking. Na 1996, ọ laghachiri South Africa iji guzobe ụlọ nyocha nke ya na South Africa Institute for Medical Research (nke bụ ugbu a National Health Laboratory Service). N'ebe a, ọ mere nnyocha gbasara ọnụọgụgụ mmadụ na mgbanwe mkpụrụ ndụ ihe nketa..
N'afọ 2001, a họpụtara ya dịka onye nduzi nke Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit na WITS. A kpọkwara ya ka ọ sonye na Genographic Project dị ka onye isi nchọpụta maka mpaghara Sahara Africa.
Nkwado, onyinye, ndị otu
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 1999 Onyinye Onye isi ala site na NRF
- 1999 WITS Vice-Chancellor's Award maka nyocha
- 2005 Order of Mapungubwe (Bronze) maka "onyinye ya pụtara ìhè n'ọhịa sayensị"
Akwụkwọ ndị a họọrọ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Soodyall bụ onye dere "A Walk in the Garden of Eden". Ọ bụkwa onye edemede ma ọ bụ onye edemede nke ihe karịrị akwụkwọ agụmakwụkwọ 90, gụnyere:
- Sahibdeen (19 July 2018). "Genetic variants in SEC16B are associated with body composition in black South Africans". Nutrition & Diabetes 8 (1). DOI:10.1038/s41387-018-0050-0. ISSN 2044-4052. PMID 30026463.
- Soodyall (2016). "Human Genetics and Genomics and Sociocultural Beliefs and Practices in South Africa", Genomics and Society. Elsevier. DOI:10.1016/b978-0-12-420195-8.00016-1. ISBN 978-0-12-420195-8.
- Owers (5 April 2017). "Adaptation to infectious disease exposure in indigenous Southern African populations". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1852). DOI:10.1098/rspb.2017.0226. ISSN 0962-8452. PMID 28381615.
- Schlebusch (28 September 2017). "Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago". Science 358 (6363): 652–655. DOI:10.1126/science.aao6266. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 28971970.