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Elliot Meyerowitz is an American biologist.
He is George W. Beadle Professor of Biology, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, he served as Chair of the Biology Division from 2000 to 2010.
He was appointed as Inaugural Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and elected into a Professorship in the University, and a Professorial Fellowship at Trinity College, with effect from 1 January 2011, while on leave from the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Meyerowitz earned his A.B. from Columbia University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Biology from Yale University. He joined the Caltech faculty after a postdoctoral period at the Biochemistry Department of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Meyerowitz was a Drosophila melanogaster expert before he became a pioneer of Arabidopsis thaliana research. Dr. Meyerowitz is well known for his contributions on the genetic and molecular basis of plant hormone reception, and on the molecular mechanisms of pattern formation during flower and shoot apical meristem development. More recently, he has turned his attention to physical models of shoot morphogenesis. He has trained many of the current leaders in modern plant biology, including Steven Jacobsen, Marty Yanofsky and Detlef Weigel.
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