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David Sadava is the Pritzker Family
Foundation Professor of Biology at the Keck Science
Center of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps,
three of The Claremont Colleges. Twice winner
of the Huntoon Award for superior teaching, Dr.
Sadava has taught courses on introductory biology,
biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular
biology, plant biology, and cancer biology.He
is a visiting scientist in medical oncology at
the City of Hope Medical Center. He is the author
or coauthor of five books on cell biology and
on plants, genes, and crop biotechnology. His
research has resulted in over 50 papers, many
coauthored with undergraduates, on topics ranging
from plant biochemistry to pharmacology of narcotic
analgesics to human genetic diseases. For the
past 15 years, he and his collaborators have investigated
multi-drug resistance in human small-cell lung
carcinoma cells with a view to understanding and
overcoming this clinical challenge. Their current
work focuses on new anti-cancer agents from plants. |
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Craig Heller
is the Lorry I. Lokey/Business Wire Professor
in Biological Sciences and Human Biology at
Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. from
the Department of Biology at Yale University
in 1970. Dr. Heller has taught in the core biology
courses at Stanford since 1972, served as Director
of the Program in Human Biology, Chairman of
the Biological Sciences Department, and Associate
Dean of Research. Dr. Heller is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and a recipient of the Walter J.
Gores Award for excellence in teaching. His
research is on the neurobiology of sleep and
circadian rhythms, mammalian hibernation, the
regulation of body temperature, and the physiology
of human performance. Dr. Heller has done research
on sleeping kangaroo rats, diving seals, hibernating
bears, and exercising athletes. Some of his
recent work on the effects of temperature on
human performance is featured in the opener
to Chapter 40.
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Orians
Gordon Orians
is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University
of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1960 under
Frank Pitelka. Dr. Orians has been elected to
the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Foreign
Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He was President of the Organization
for Tropical Studies, 1988–1994, and President
of the Ecological Society of America, 1995–1996.
He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service
Award of the American Institute of Biological
Sciences. Dr. Orians is a leading authority
in ecology, conservation biology, and evolution.
His research on behavioral ecology, plant–herbivore
interactions, community structure, and environmental
policy has taken him to six continents. He now
devotes full time to writing and to helping
apply scientific information to environmental
decision-making.
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Purves
Bill Purves
is Professor Emeritus of Biology as well as
founder and former Chair of the Department of
Biology at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont,
California. He received his Ph.D. from Yale
University in 1959 under Arthur Galston. A fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Dr. Purves has served as head of
the Life Sciences Group at the University of
Connecticut-Storrs, and as chair of the Department
of Biological Sciences, University of California,
Santa Barbara, where he won the Harold J. Plous
Award for teaching excellence. His research
interests focused on the hormonal regulation
of plant growth. Dr. Purves elected early retirement
in 1995, after teaching introductory biology
for 34 consecutive years, in order to concentrate
entirely on research directed at learning and
science education. He is currently participating
in the development of a virtual technical high
school, with responsibility for curriculum design
in scientific reasoning and health science.
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Hillis
David Hillis
is the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor
in Integrative Biology and the Director of the
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
at the University of Texas at Austin, where
he also has directed the School of Biological
Sciences. Dr. Hillis has taught courses in introductory
biology, genetics, evolution, systematics, and
biodiversity. He has been elected into the membership
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Fellowship, and has served as President of the
Society for the Study of Evolution and of the
Society of Systematic Biologists. His research
interests span much of evolutionary biology,
including experimental studies of evolving viruses,
empirical studies of natural molecular evolution,
applications of phylogenetics, analyses of biodiversity,
and evolutionary modeling. He is particularly
interested in teaching and research about the
practical applications of evolutionary biology.
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