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2003 Participants

Participant biographies also available.

Elizabeth Armstrong: Director for Education and Director of the Harvard Macy Institute, Harvard Medical International; Associate Professor in Pediatrics (Medical Education), Harvard Medical School

Neil Baker: Associate Professor of Microbiology: The Ohio State University; Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee, American Society for Microbiology

Bob Beichner: Alumni Distinguished Professor of Physics, North Carolina State University

Kerry Brenner: Program Officer, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council

Peter Bruns: Vice President for Grants and Special Programs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Amy Chang: Director, Education Department, American Society for Microbiology

Richard Cyr: Professor of Biology and Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs, Department of Biology, Penn State University

Chris Day: Assistant Professor of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Robert DeHaan: Director of the Committee on Undergraduate Science Education, Center for Education, National Research Council

Diane Ebert-May: Professor of Plant Biology, Michigan State University

Adam Fagen: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council

Kathy Frame: Director of Educational Programs, Biotechnology Institute

Robert Full: Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Gaines: Professor and Chairperson, Department of Biology; Direction, Environmental Studies Program, University of Miami

James Gentile: Dean for the Natural Sciences; Chair, Department of Biology, Hope College

Robert Goldberg: Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; HHMI Professor; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Jo Handelsman: Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; HHMI Professor

Ron Hoy: David and Dorothy Merksamer Professor of Biology, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University; HHMI Professor

John Jungck: Mead Chair of the Sciences and Professor of Biology, Beloit College

Jack Kampmeier: Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester

Daniel Klionsky: Abram Sager Collegiate Professor of Life Sciences, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan; NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar

Michael Klymkowsky: Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder

Jay Labov: Senior Scientist, Center for Education, National Research Council

David Nelson: Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Center for Biology Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Laura Knoll: Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Francisco Pelegri: Assistant Professor of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Patricia Pukkila: Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

John Roth: Professor of Microbiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Millard Susman: Professor Emeritus of Genetics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Biology Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Derrick Tabor: Program Director, Minority Biomedical Research Support Branch, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health

Lillian Tong: Undergraduate Education Coordinator, Center for Biology Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Graham Walker: American Cancer Society Research Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; HHMI Professor

Paul Williams: Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

William Wood: Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Robin Wright: Associate Dean for Academic & Faculty Affairs, College of Biological Sciences; Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Robert Yuan: Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park; Program Officer, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council

Note: All affiliations are as of August 2003.

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