Lynne Marie Musgrave Angerer (December 7, 1944 – March 30, 2013)[1] was a developmental biologist most notable for research with sea urchin development during her time spent as Head of the Developmental Mechanisms (NIDCR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
[2] Lynne Angerer is best known for her research of determining the cellular fates of cells in sea urchins.
With her sea urchin work she was able to develop a method of in situ hybridization through the use of RNA probes.
[2] Another breakthrough developed by Angerer was the use of morpholino-substituted antisense oligonucleotides in the sea urchin to knock down and interfere with individual genes.
[4] Angerer and her husband Robert played a major role in the sequencing the sea urchin genome for the first time.