Anita Hopper is an American molecular geneticist who is a professor at the Ohio State University.
She moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for her graduate studies, where she specialized in cell biology.
[citation needed] Hopper joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and was promoted to associate professor.
[2] Hopper makes use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) as a model system to study processing and intracellular trafficking of tRNAs.
[4] Almost all RNAs involved in protein synthesis are generated in the nucleus but function in the cytoplasm (and vice versa).