Sharyn Endow was born in a small town in Oregon, to second-generation Japanese American parents. She earned a BA degree from Stanford University and went on to do her PhD at Yale University, where she was a student of Joe Gall. She was a postdoc at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and then in Edinburgh. She returned to the USA to take an Assistant Professor position at Duke University, where she has been ever since. She was promoted to Full Professor in 1992.
Sharyn has been working on molecular motors since the kinesin field was in its infancy.
In the interview that follows, Fiona Watt, Editor-in-Chief of JCS, asks Sharyn about her experiences as a woman in science.
FMW:What changes for women in science have you observed during the course of your career?
SAE: Things have not changed that much during my scientific lifetime, really. It is still, in the...
