Author: Deirdre Meldrum
Affiliation: University of Washington
Country: USA
Personal Website: Deirdre Meldrum
Research Group Website: The Microscale Life Sciences Center

Bibliography: Deirdre Meldrum, "Automated Systems for Genome Analyses", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.570-572, 2006.

Deirdre Meldrum, Ph. D received the B.S. in Civil Engineering degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1983, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1985, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1993. She is currently a Professor and Director of the Genomation Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Her research interests include genome automation, microscale systems for biological applications, ecogenomics, robotics, and control systems. Dr. Meldrum is a member of AAAS, ACS, AWIS, HUGO, IEEE, Sigma Xi, and SWE. In 2003, Dr. Meldrum became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2004, a Fellow of IEEE. She will become the Dean of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, in January 2007.