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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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Harvey Blatt

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Ira Blei

Ira Blei was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended public schools and graduated from Brooklyn College with B.S. and M.A. degrees in chemistry. After receiving Ph.D. degrees in physical biochemistry from Rutgers University, he worked for Lever Brothers Company in New Jersey, studying the effects of surface-active agents on skin. His next position was a Melpar Incorporated, in Virginia, where he founded a biophysics group that researched methods for the detection of terrestrial and extraterrestrial microorganisms. In 1967, Ira joined the faculty of the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and taught chemistry and biology there for three decades. His research has appeared in the Journal of Colloid Science, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, and the Archives of Biophysical and Biochemical Science. He has two sons, one an engineer working in Berkeley, California, and the other a musician who lives and works in San Francisco. Ira is outdoors whenever possible, overturning dead branches to see what lurks beneath or scanning the trees with binoculars in search of new bird life, and has recently served as president of Staten island’s local Natural History Club.

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Bruce Bolt

Bruce Bolt (late) was Professor Emeritus of Seismology and former Director of the Seismographic Stations at the University of California, Berkeley. He was frequently called upon to consult on earthquake hazard reduction, and helped estimate the likely strong ground motions affecting major structures in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, San Diego, and South Carolina. Bolt passed away in 2005.

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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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Rebecca Brewer

Rebecca Brewer received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, where her area of research was developing rapid analytical methods for field-testing contaminated ground water and soil. She taught graduate-level courses in analytical chemistry at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, part-time while working full-time at Cytec Industries, Stamford, Connecticut. More recently, she was a full-time faculty member at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where she taught the general, organic, and biochemistry course for five years. Becky is currently working full-time in industry, doing pharmaceutical research and development for Sandoz, Inc. in Broomfield, Colorado.

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Warren Burggren

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Michael Cann

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Ann R. Cannon

Ann R. Cannon has been a faculty member at Cornell College since 1993. She is currently Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. She has served terms as at-large member of the executive committee for the Stat-Ed section as well as Council of Sections rep for Stat-Ed and as Treasurer (8 years) and President (1 year) for the Iowa Chapter of the ASA. She was Associate editor for JSE from 2000 to 2009 and was moderator for Isostat from 2003 to 2007. She has been an AP reader, table leader, and question leader. In her spare time, she plays the French horn with local community summer band, the Cornell College orchestra and occasionally with the Iowa City String Orchestra when they do pieces that require wind instruments. She is also handbell player. She is married and mother to two boys.

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Charles R. Cantor

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Eric Carlen

Eric Carlen is Professor of Mathematicas and Member of the Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University. Previously, he was a professor in the School of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Carlen's research is in functional analysis and probability, primarily on problems of mathematical physics, especially non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and on variational problems and related geometric inequalities

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