Nancy Kleckner worked with Matt Meselson as an undergraduate at Harvard University, earning her degree in 1968.
She then moved on to do her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with Ethan Signer on the genetics of lambda phage and DNA replication.
[2] Her first graduate student at Harvard was Victoria Lundblad, who discovered the gene-enzyme systems of yeast that control formation of telomeres.
[3] Her work in transposons and mutagenesis has been largely productive, and led her to study the physical mechanism of chromosome replication.
Currently, she runs the Kleckner Lab[4] at Harvard University which performs research related to chromosome and membrane mechanics.