Timothy Schedl is a professor of genetics at Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

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Early life and education

Timothy Bruce Schedl was born in 1955 to University of Iowa chemistry professor Harold Schedl and professor of art Naomi Schedl. He has two brothers, Andrew Schedl and Paul Schedl

Paul Schedl

Paul Daniel Schedl is a Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.Schedl was born to the famed professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa, Harold Schedl and professor of art, Naomi Schedl...

. He received his degree from Lawrence University

Lawrence University

Lawrence University is a selective, private liberal arts college with a nationally recognized conservatory of music, in Appleton, Wisconsin. Lawrence University is known for its rigorous academic environment. Founded in 1847, the first classes were held on November 12, 1849...

 in 1977.

Career

In 1990, he and his wife, Amy moved to St. Louis where he occupied he same position that he does now. The Schedl lab studies germline development of the soil nematode C. elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living, transparent nematode , about 1 mm in length, which lives in temperate soil environments. Research into the molecular and developmental biology of C. elegans was begun in 1974 by Sydney Brenner and it has since been used extensively as a model...

, and uses genetic, molecular, and cellular approaches to investigate germcell proliferation and entry into meiosis, progression through meiotic prophase, meiotic maturation and ovulation, and germline sex determination.

Schedl has published 33 papers with various people in his lab and his field. One of his pictures also ended up as the cover of Science Magazine

Science Magazine

Science Magazine was a half-hour television show produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1975 to 1979.The show was hosted by geneticist David Suzuki, who previously hosted the daytime youth programme Suzuki On Science...

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Marriage and children

He was married to his wife Amy in 1974, and now also has two children, Will and Maggie.