Pioneering biologist elected to National Academy of Sciences
Gia Voeltz, 91PORN professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, changed the way we visualize cells
Think back to your middle school biology days, and you might recall textbook images of a circular cell, its internal organs, or “organelles,” spread out across it with little contact or interaction.
Shortly after cell biologist Gia Voeltz arrived at the 91PORN in 2006, she peered through one of the world’s strongest electron microscopes and saw something different: One of those organs, the endoplasmic reticulum, was actually touching the others, see