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Robert R. Sokal

Robert R. Sokal has taught biometry and related courses for almost half a century at the University of Kansas, at Stony Brook, and abroad. In both his teaching and research, he has promoted the use of statistics in biology. A native of Vienna, Austria, he went to high school and college in Shanghai, China, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology at St. John’s University. Graduate studies in zoology at the University of Chicago led to a Ph.D. in 1952. He spent 18 years as a faculty member in Entomology at the University of Kansas, joining the then new department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook in 1968. His research has ranged over a diverse group of topics: quantitative methods in systematics (numerical taxonomy), ecological genetics of laboratory populations, spatial analysis of distributions of organisms and their genes, and in recent years, statistical approaches to problems in physical anthropology. Including translated volumes, he has published 15 books, and over 200 articles. Dr. Sokal was elected President of four international scientific societies and an honorary member of several others. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also awarded the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award in Physical Anthropology. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University.

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Christine Sorkness

Christine A. Sorkness, PharmD is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine and Public Health. She is also the Senior Associate Executive Director of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). In this role, she directly oversees functioning of the Community Engagement and Research Core, the Collaborative Center for Health Equity, and the ICTR Pilot Awards Program. Her research interests have focused on the evaluation (both clinical efficacy and comparative effectiveness) of new and existing therapies in the treatment of children and adults with asthma, including minority populations. Dr. Sorkness serves as a mentor to the ICTR KL2 trainees and graduate students, a variety of pharmacy and medicine specialty residents and fellows, and as a consultant for campus training grants. Dr. Sorkness served as a leader on the multi-site randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of this mentor training curriculum.

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Kimberly Spencer

Kimberly Spencer, BS is an Associate Research Specialist for the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Since joining ICTR in 2010, she has provided support on mentoring efforts, including a nationwide study testing the effectiveness of a research mentor-training program for clinical and translational researchers. Currently Ms. Spencer is working with ICTR to build a website that will provide mentoring resources for mentors and trainees, as well as specialized training curricula for users to implement research mentor training. Ms. Spencer graduated from Carroll University with a degree in psychology and has also provided support on several research grants with the Medical College of Wisconsin and worked as a line therapist with the Wisconsin Early Autism Project.

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Sharon Stranford

Sharon Stranford received her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Hahnemann University (now Drexel) in Philadelphia, where she studied autoimmunity with Elizabeth Blankenhorn. After graduating, she spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University in England, exploring transplantation immunology, followed by 3 years at the University of California, San Francisco, working on HIV/AIDS with Dr. Jay Levy. In 2001 she was hired as a Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College, a small liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, MA, where she is currently an Associate Professor serving the Department of Biological Sciences and the Program in Biochemistry. Sharon’s research, which is funded by the NIH and NSF, utilizes a murine model of AIDS to study early genetic and immunologic indicators of susceptibility to acquired immune deficiency.

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Lubert Stryer

Lubert Stryer is Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus, in the School of Medicine and Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Stanford University,
where he has been on the faculty since 1976. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Professor Stryer has received many awards for his research on the
interplay of light and life, including the Eli Lilly Award for Fundamental Research in Biological Chemistry, the Distinguished Inventors Award of the Intellectual
Property Owners’ Association, and election to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the National Medal
of Science in 2006. The publication of his first edition of Biochemistry in 1975 transformed the teaching of biochemistry.

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Kimberly Tanner

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Gordon Taylor

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Jacquelyn Taylor

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Robert G. Thomson

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Matthew Tontonoz

Matthew Tontonoz has been a development editor for textbooks in introductory biology, cell biology, evolution, and environmental science. He received his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University, where he did research on the neurobiology of birdsong, and his M.A. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied the history of the behavioral and life sciences. His writing has appeared in Science as Culture. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Anna L. Tyler

Anna L. Tyler was graduated with a B.A. from Swarthmore College and is presently working toward a doctorate in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department of Dartmouth College.

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Mary Tyler

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John L. Tymoczko

John L. Tymoczko is Towsley Professor of Biology at Carleton College, where he has taught since 1976. He currently teaches Biochemistry, the Metabolic Basis
of Human Disease, Oncogenes and the Molecular Biology of Cancer, and Exercise Biochemistry and co-teaches an introductory course, Energy Flow in Biological
Systems. Professor Tymoczko received his B.A. from the University in Chicago in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Chicago with
Shutsung Liao at the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research in 1973. He then held a postdoctoral position with Hewson Swift of the Department of Biology at
the University of Chicago. The focus of his research has been on steroid receptors, ribonucleoprotein particles, and proteolytic processing enzymes.

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Paul J. Vandemark

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Janet Vigna

Janet Vigna, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she is also a member of the Integrated Science Program. She has been teaching university-level biology for 14 years, with a special interest in effectively teaching biology to nonmajors. Her current research focuses on the environmental effects of the biological pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis on natural frog communities. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa.

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