Genetics: From Genes to Genomes

About the Author

Leland Hartwell

Michael Goldberg

Janice Fischer

Dr. Janice Fischer is a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where she isan award-winning teacher of genetics and Director of the Biology Instructional Office.She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from HarvardUniversity, and did postdoctoral research at The University of California at Berkeleyand The Whitehead Institute at MIT. In her current research, Dr. Fischer usesDrosophila to examine the roles of ubiquitin and endocytosis in cell signaling duringdevelopment.

Leroy Hood

Dr. Hood received an MD from the Johns Hopkins Medical Schooland a PhD in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include immunology, development and the development of biological instrumentation (e.g. the protein sequenator and the automated fluorescent DNA sequencer). His research played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of anitbody diversity. Dr. Hood has taught molecular evolution, immunology, molecular biology and biochemistry. he is currently the Chairman (and founder) of the cross-disciplinary Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington. Dr. Hood has received a variety of awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research (1987), Dickson Price (1987), Cefas Award for Biochemistry (1989), and the Distinguished Service Award from the national Association of Teachers (1998). He is deeply involved in K-12 science educatiohn. His hobbies include running, mountain climbing, and reading.

Charles (Chip) Aquadro

Dr. Charles Aquadro (Chip) is Professor of Population Genetics, the Charles A.Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences, and Director of the Center forComparative and Population Genomics at Cornell University. He obtained hisPh.D. in genetics from the University of Georgia, was a postdoc at the NationalInstitute for Environmental Health Sciences/NIH, and joined the faculty at CornellUniversity in 1985 where he is now a professor. He has served as President of theSociety of Molecular Biology and Evolution, is an elected Fellow of the AAAS, is amember of the Scientific Advisory Board for National Geographic Society’sGenographic Project, was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for theWGBH/NOVA TV series “Evolution,” and has been a visiting scholar at CambridgeUniversity (England, 1993) and Harvard University (2007). His research and teachingfocuses on molecular population genetics, molecular evolution, and comparativegenomics. While Drosophila is his primary research system, recent work has alsoinvolved yeast, humans, and plants. At Cornell, he teaches a university-wide courseto nonmajors on personal genomics and medicine, and a major’s course in populationgenetics.

Lee Silver

Dr. Silver is a Professor at Princeton University in the Departments of Molecualr Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the program in Neuroscience. Dr. silver graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with BA and MS degrees in physics, and from Harvard University with a PhD in biophysics. He was a research fellow at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and a seniro scientist at Cold Harbor Lab before coming to Princeton. He is the author of "Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World." He is also the co-editor-in-chief of a new international journal entitled "Clining: Science and Policy," and co-editor-in-chief of "Mammalian Genome," the official journal of the International Mammalian Genome society. In 1993, Dr. Silver was elected a Fellow fo the AAAS.

Ann E. Reynolds

Dr. Reynolds is an educator and author who has been teaching genetics and biology since 1990. An affiliate faculty member of the Genetics Department at the University of Washington, her research has included studies of gene regulation in E. coli, chromosome structure and DNA replication in yeast, and chloroplast gene expression in marien algae. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and received her PhD from Tufts University. Dr. Reynolds was a post doctoral research fellow witht he Harvard University Department of Molecular Biology. Dr. Reynolds was also an author and producer of the laserdisc and CD-ROM Genetics: Fundamentals to Frontiers.