# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-m-rubin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:48:25.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-m-rubin"
name: "Gerald M. Rubin"
slug: "gerald-m-rubin"
description: "Gerald Mayer Rubin is an American biologist, notable for pioneering the use of transposable P elements in genetics, and for leading the public project to sequence the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Related to his genomics work, Rubin's lab is notable for development of genetic and genomics tools and studies of signal transduction and gene regulation. Rubin also served as a vice president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2003–2020) and founding executive director of its Janelia Research Campus."
tagline: "American biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump