Magdalena Bezanilla is a biologist and the Ernest Evert Just 1907 Professor at Dartmouth College.
She received her doctoral degree in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University.
Bezanilla developed the use of moss physcomitrella patens as a model system to figure out proteins in the plant cell regulate growth and morphogenesis.
[5] Bezanilla was the first woman to win the Golden Spore Award in 2022 from the International Molecular Moss Science Society.
[1] Bezanilla was awarded the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering in 2007 for her research into molecular mechanisms that affect cell shape.