Biography
Anna Marie Pyle is Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1997. Dr. Pyle obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Princeton University and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1990, working with Professor Jacqueline K. Barton. Dr. Pyle was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Thomas Cech at the University of Colorado. Dr. Pyle formed her own research group in 1992 in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical Center. In 2002, she moved to Yale University, where she leads a research group in the Yale Science Building that specializes in structure and mechanistic function of large RNA molecules, RNA-protein complexes and RNA remodeling enzymes. Dr. Pyle has served in multiple administrative functions at Yale. Notably, she chaired the committee for design and construction of the award-winning Yale Science Building and she is Instructor in Charge for Molecular Biology (MCDB200/700) core course. She is the founder of two local companies (RIGImmune and RNAConnect) and has authored more than 250 papers.