Glenna Shirleen Roeder is a geneticist known for identifying and characterizing the yeast genes that regulate the process of meiosis with particular emphasis on synapsis.
[4] In 2001 she was named the Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department at Yale University.
[5] Roeder used budding yeast as a model system to examine meiosis.
[7] In 1984, Roeder received a Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation.
[8] She was named an HHMI investigator in 1997,[9] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.