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2006 New Professors
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Richard M. Amasino
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
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Richard Amasino has been growing plants ever since his mother let him plant his first seeds. He will use plant genetics to involve undergraduates in original experiments and to develop genetics-based teaching units for K-12 science. More
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Winston Anderson
Howard University
Washington, DC
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Winston Anderson, a professor of biology at Howard University, plans to help undergraduates at the historically African-American institution develop skills that will give them a competitive edge for entrance into graduate and professional research careers in the biomedical sciences. More
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Bonnie Bartel
Rice University
Houston, TX
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When she was an undergraduate at Bethel College, Bonnie Bartel was aware of only two things she could do with her biology degree—go to medical school or teach five college classes a semester. More
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Victor G. Corces
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
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Victor Corces' philosophy is 'never too young.' His plan to expose Baltimore high school students to research as early as their freshman year is built on the belief that students need to hear from real scientists—early. More
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Catherine L. Drennan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
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Catherine Drennan understands why some Massachusetts Institute of Technology students may sign up for her freshman chemistry class grudgingly and only because it is required. More
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Irving R. Epstein
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
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Chemist Irving Epstein will collaborate with the Posse Foundation to bring two 'science posses' to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts—in addition to the 10 Posse Foundation students that already enter Brandeis each year. More
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Louis J. Guillette
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
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Spend a few minutes poking around Louis Guillette's personal web site, and you get the sense that he's quite at home in the swamp. More
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Leslie A. Leinwand
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
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One day last year, a dejected cardiology research fellow in Leslie Leinwand's lab sought her out. He thought his experiment had failed. She showed him how to welcome unexpected results as an opportunity to move in a new direction. More
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Claudia M. Neuhauser
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
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During her first winter on the faculty of the University of Minnesota (UMN) in 1997, Claudia Neuhauser taught a 10-week calculus course that she hated. More
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Diane K. O'Dowd
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
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Neurobiologist Diane O'Dowd began using interactive teaching in small classes at UC Irvine five years ago. Now she is incorporating active learning in an enormous introductory biology course. More
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Baldomero Olivera
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
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Growing up in the Philippines, Baldomero "Toto" Olivera recalls that cone snails were sold by the kilo in local seafood markets. He had no idea that the predatory snail would become the focus of his life's work. More
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Pavel Pevzner
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA
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Did modern humans evolve from Neanderthals? How can clinicians distinguish between types of leukemia? Although starkly different, both questions can be tackled with the specialized computational tools of bioinformatics. More
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Jasper Rine
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
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You won't find it on his CV, but in addition to his achievements in genetics and genomics research and his teaching awards, Jasper Rine inspired an eponymous, now-defunct punk-rock band that had a mercifully short run in the late 1990s. More
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Robert L. Sah
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA
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If scientists could create real knees and hips from scratch, millions of aging seniors suffering from osteoarthritis might remain healthier and more active into their sunset years. More
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Scott A. Strobel
Yale University
New Haven, CT
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In Scott Strobel's opinion, one of the biggest challenges in traditional scientific training is what he calls "the problem of ownership." More
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David R. Walt
Tufts University
Medford, MA
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Ten years ago, a student working in David Walt's chemistry lab at Tufts University conducted a frustrating experiment to create an array of pointed optical fibers for use as a new surface scanning method. More
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Susan Wessler
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
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University of Georgia geneticist Susan Wessler's research focuses on understanding the "nuts and bolts" of evolution, yet her part of the country is a hotbed of anti-evolutionist activity. More
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Jennifer West
Rice University
Houston, TX
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When Jennifer West explains her research, it is impossible to tell where the biologist ends and the engineer begins. More
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Huntington F. Willard
Duke University
Durham, NC
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As an undergraduate student at Harvard 30 years ago, Huntington Willard received two rare gifts—two and a half years working in Sam Latt's research lab and the opportunity to delve into research literature in a class with Sarah Elgin, now an HHMI professor at Washington University in St. Louis. More
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Richard N. Zare
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
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For Richard Zare, part of chemistry's first allure was its forbidden nature. More
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Continuing Professors
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Utpal Banerjee
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
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As a researcher in the fields of Drosophila genetics and developmental biology, Utpal Banerjee is currently studying signal transduction and transcriptional control of neural and hematopoietic development. More
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Sarah C.R. Elgin
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
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Sarah Elgin's research focuses on the role of chromatin structure in gene regulation in fruit flies. More
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Jo Handelsman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
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Jo Handelsman studies the communication networks of microbial communities. More
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Graham F. Hatfull
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
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Graham Hatfull's main research focus is on the study of mycobacteriophages—viruses of mycobacteria. More
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Darcy B. Kelley
Columbia University
New York, NY
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Darcy Kelley's research uses the South African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, to study the neurobiology of social communication, with the goal of determining how one brain communicates with another. More
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Richard M. Losick
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
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Richard Losick's research interests include RNA polymerase, gene transcription and its control, and development in microorganisms. More
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Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Rice University
Houston, TX
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Rebecca Richards-Kortum's research focuses on developing optical technologies for cervical precancer. More
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Isiah M. Warner
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
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Isiah Warner's research focuses on the development and application of improved methodology (chemical, mathematical, and instrumental) for studies of complex chemical systems. More
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