Kleckner returned to Harvard as a professor in 1977 and was awarded tenure in 1985. Her first graduate student at Harvard was
Victoria Lundblad, who discovered the gene-enzyme systems of yeast that control formation of
telomeres. Her work in
transposons and
mutagenesis has been largely productive, and led her to study the physical mechanism of chromosome replication. at Harvard University which performs research related to
chromosome and membrane mechanics. == Awards ==