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Victoria Foe is a scientist whose work focuses on cell and developmental biology and explores the earliest moments of embryonic life.
Foe is a descriptive embryologist with a gift for seeing patterns and with the desire to work out the finest details of a biological process. Looking at the embryos of fruit flies, mosquitoes, frogs and fish, Foe made a seminal observation that, very early in development, different groups of cells in different regions of the embryo begin dividing at markedly different rates, thus providing insight into complex transformations that lead to cell specialization and the growth of distinct organs. She has made major contributions to understanding gene and chromosome organization, and has spent many years working on an in-depth project describing embryonic development. The first installment was published in 1989.
Biography
Foe was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (1976-1983). She is Research Professor at the Center for Cell Dynamics at the University of Washington, in the biology department, and its Friday Harbor Laboratories.
Foe received a B.S. (1966) and a Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Texas, Austin.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on July 1, 1993
