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Francisco Mojica (Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica) was born on 5 October, 1963 in Elche, Spain, is a Microbiologist. Discover Francisco Mojica's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?
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Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica |
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60 years old |
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Libra |
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5 October 1963 |
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5 October |
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Elche, Spain |
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Spain
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Francisco Mojica Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica (born 5 October 1963) is a Spanish molecular biologist and microbiologist at the University of Alicante in Spain.
He is known for his discovery of repetitive, functional DNA sequences in bacteria which he named CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).
These were later developed into the first widespread genome editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9.
Mojica was born in Elche, Spain, on 5 October 1963.
He attended Los Andes elementary school, Vázquez de Mella school, and Instituto Carrus high school.
He enrolled first at the University of Murcia to study biology and later moved to the University of Valencia (BS, 1986) and University of Alicante (PhD, 1993).
During his doctoral studies, he visited Paris-Sud University.
He then received post-doctoral training at the University of Utah and the University of Oxford.
Mojica described the complete gene sequence repeats in the archaeal organisms Haloferax and Haloarcula species, and studied their function.
He continued research on these sequences throughout the 1990s, and in 2000, Mojica recognized that what had been reported as disparate repeat sequences actually shared a common set of features, now known to be the hallmarks of CRISPR sequences.
He coined the term CRISPR through correspondence with Ruud Jansen of Utrecht University, proposing the acronym of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats to alleviate the confusion stemming from the numerous acronyms used to describe the sequences in scientific literature.
Mojica was the first researcher to characterize what is now called a CRISPR locus, reported in 1993.
Since 1994, Mojica has been a faculty member at the University of Alicante, where he has focused on molecular microbiology, which led to his discovery of the CRISPR system.
In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system.
The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.
(A selection from those mentioned in the institutional page of the Universidad de Alicante, and those referred by Lander in the article The Heroes of CRISPR )
