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Peter Abramoff

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Deborah Allen

Deborah Allen is on leave from the University of Delaware to serve in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, where she is a Program Director for the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, and for the Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological & Mathematical Sciences (UBM), Course, Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Research Coordination Networks–Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE), and Scholarships in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) programs. Before joining DUE, Allen served as PI of a NSF-funded Teacher Professional Continuum project, and continues to collaborate with the project's team of science and science education faculty who study pre-service teachers' progress through a reform-based teacher preparation program, and who co-teach courses for students in that program. Allen serves on the editorial board of CBE-Life Sciences Education and has co-authored a regularly-featured column on teaching strategies for that journal. She is the author of Transformations: Approaches to College Science Teaching (W.H. Freeman's Scientific Teaching Series, 2009).

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Angelika Amon

ANGELIKA AMON is Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms that govern chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis and the consequences—aneuploidy—when these mechanisms fail during normal cell proliferation and cancer development. Dr. Amon teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in cell biology and genetics.

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Pamela Asquith

Pamela Asquith, PhD is the Administrative Director of the Research Education and Career Development (REC) Core at the UW Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR).  Dr. Asquith earned her PhD in Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester.  The REC Core administers NIH Training and Career Development programs and graduate and certificate programs in clinical and translational research. Prior to joining ICTR in 2007, Pam worked for several years at the UW Wisconsin Center for Education Research. In addition to co-authoring this curriculum, Pam has led the adaptation of this curriculum for clinical and behavioral researchers and is co-author on two papers reporting on the findings of the UW Madison led multi-site Randomized Controlled Trial to test the effectiveness of mentor training

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Janelle M. Bailey

Janelle M. Bailey, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  Her research interests include identifying and measuring change in students' knowledge about astronomy topics, the teaching and learning of science, and the effectiveness of professional development for science teachers.  She teaches courses in science education, including methods and research courses, for both undergraduate and graduate students.  She is the past Chair of the American Association of Physics Teachers' Space Science and Astronomy Committee.  Dr. Bailey earned her B.A. in Astrophysics from Agnes Scott College and her M.Ed. in Science Education from the University of Georgia.  Her Ph.D. is from the University of Arizona's Department of Teaching and Teacher Education, where she studied undergraduates' conceptual understanding of stars and star properties.

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Brigitte Baldi

Brigitte Baldi is a graduate of France’s Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In her academic studies, she combined a love of math and quantitative analysis with wide interests in the life sciences. She studied math and biology in a double major and obtained a Masters in molecular biology and biochemistry and a Masters in cognitive sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Université Paris VI studying multisensory integration in the brain and used computer simulations to study patterns of brain reorganization after lesion as a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. She then worked as a management consultant advising corporations before returning to academia to teach statistics.

Dr. Baldi is currently a lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Irvine.  She is actively involved in statistical education. She was a local and later national advisor in the development of the statistics telecourse Statistically Speaking, replacing David Moore’s earlier telecourse Against All Odds. She developed UCI’s first online statistics courses and is interested in ways to integrate new technologies in the classroom to enhance participation and learning.  She is currently serving as an elected member to the Executive Committee At Large of the section on Statistical Education of the American Statistical Association.  

 

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N. Sue Barnes

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May Berenbaum

May Berenbaum is the Swanlund Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught courses in introductory animal biology, entomology, insect ecology and chemical ecology and has received awards at the regional and national levels teaching from the Entomological Society of America. A fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, she served as President of the American Institute for Biological Sciences in 2009 and currently serves on the Board of Directors of AAAS. Her research addresses insect-plant coevolution from molecular mechanisms of detoxification to impacts of herbivory on community structure. Concerned with the practical application of ecological and evolutionary principles, she has examined impacts of genetic engineering, global climate change, and invasive species on natural and agricultural ecosystems. In recognition of her work, she received the 2011 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Devoted to fostering science literacy, she has published numerous articles and five books on insects for the general public.

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Jeremy M. Berg

Jeremy M. Berg received his B.S. and M.S degrees in Chemistry from Stanford University (where he did research with Keith Hodgson and Lubert Stryer) and
his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard with Richard Holm. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Carl Pabo in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins from 1986 to 1990. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine as Professor and Director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, where he remained until 2003. From 2003 to 2011,
he served as Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. In 2011, he moved to the University of Pittsburgh
where he is Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning and a faculty member in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology. He
is a recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1994), the Eli Lilly Award for Fundamental Research in Biological Chemistry (1995), the
Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist of the Year (1995), the Harrison Howe Award from the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society (1997),
the Howard Schachman Public Service Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2011), and the Public Service Award from the
American Chemical Society (2011). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. While at Johns Hopkins, he received the W. Barry Wood Teaching Award (selected by medical students), the Graduate Student Teaching
Award, and the Professor’s Teaching Award for the Preclinical Sciences.

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Arnold Berk

Arnold Berk is Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and a member of the Molecular Biology Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Berk is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of the original discoverers of RNA splicing and of mechanisms for gene control in viruses. His laboratory studies the molecular interactions that regulate transcription nitiation in mammalian cells, focusing particular attention on transcription factors encoded by oncogenes and tumor suppressors. He teaches introductory courses in molecular biology and virology and an advanced course in cell biology of the nucleus.

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Andrew Berry

Andrew Berry is Lecturer in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and an undergraduate advisor in the Life Sciences at Harvard University. He teaches in Harvard’s first-year Life Sciences program, as well as courses on evolution and Darwin. His research interests are in evolutionary biology and the history of science. He has coauthored two books: Infinite Tropics, a collection of the writings of Alfred Russel Wallace, and DNA: The Secret of Life, which is part history, part exploration of the controversies swirling around DNA-based technology. 

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Andrew Biewener

Andrew Biewener is the Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and Director of the Concord Field Station. He teaches introductory and advanced courses in anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics. His research focuses on the comparative biomechanics and neuromuscular control of mammalian and avian locomotion, with relevance to biorobotics. He is currently Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Experimental Biology. He also served as President of the American Society of Biomechanics.

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Janet L. Branchaw

Janet Branchaw is a Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin--Madison's Center for Biology Education.  She earned her B.S. in Zoology from Iowa State University and her Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Wisconsin--Madison.  After completing postdoctoral training and a lectureship in undergraduate and medical physiology at the University of Wisconsin--Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health, Janet joined the University's Center for Biology Education.  Her work at the Center focuses on developing and supporting undergraduate students for graduate school.  She developed and directs two National Science Foundation--funded undergraduate research programs; a 10-week summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that hosts students from around the country, and a three-year Undergraduate Research and Mentoring program that prepares students in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines for interdisciplinary graduate training across the biological sciences.  In connection with this work she collaborates with the Delta Program for Research, Teaching and Learning and the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching to train pre-faculty and faculty mentors of undergraduate researchers.  In addition to her work in undergraduate research, Janet also teaches introductory biology.

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Mimi Bres

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Anthony Bretscher

Anthony Bretscher is Professor of Cell Biology at Cornell University. His laboratory is well known for identifying and characterizing new components of the actin cytoskeleton, and elucidating their biological functions in relation to cell polarity and membrane traffic. For this work, his laboratory exploits biochemical, genetic and cell biological approaches in two model systems, vertebrate epithelial cells and the budding yeast. Dr. Bretscher teaches cell biology to graduate students at Cornell University.

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