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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with EDWARD O WILSON interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:10:47 -0700

Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he taught for four decades, receiving both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard, and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with DOUGLAS WALLACE interviewed by Richard Sever

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:00:26 -0700

Douglas C. Wallace has been a pioneer in the study of human mitochondrial genetics and the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in human evolution, disease, cancer, and aging. In the 1970s Dr.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with PAUL TURNER interviewed by Angelica Cibrian

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:41:31 -0700

Paul Turner received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Center for Microbial Ecology, at Michigan State University. He did postdoctoral work at the National Institutes of Health, University of Valencia in Spain, and University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Turner is currently Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and a faculty member in the Microbiology Program at Yale School of Medicine. Dr.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with BRUCE STILLMAN interviewed by Jane Alfred

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:30:40 -0700

Bruce Stillman is President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the north shore of Long Island in New York. A native of Australia, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with honors at Sydney University and a Ph. D. at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. He then moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1979 and has been at the Laboratory ever since, being promoted to the scientific staff in 1981. Dr. Stillman has been Director of the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1992, a position he still holds.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with LUCY SHAPIRO interviewed by Richard Sever

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:21:56 -0700

Lucy Shapiro holds the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Chair in the Department of Developmental Biology and is the Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She joined the faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1989 and served as the founding Chairman of the Department of Developmental Biology from 1989-1997.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN interviewed by Angelica Cibrian

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:13:16 -0700

Venki Ramakrishnan grew up in India and moved to the U.S.A. in 1971. After initially being trained as a physicist at Ohio University, he switched to biology in 1976 at the University of California, San Diego. His interest in ribosomes dates back to 1978 when he joined Peter Moore’s laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. He began his independent career at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1983. In 1995 he moved to the University of Utah to become a professor of biochemistry.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with DAVID PAGE interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:03:47 -0700

David Page studies the genetic and developmental foundations of human reproduction, including genetic differences between males and females. His laboratory conducts DNA sequence-based explorations of human and other vertebrate sex chromosomes, with particular attention to the male-specific Y chromosome and its roles in sperm production and male infertility. The Page laboratory is also elucidating how sex cells – the precursors of eggs and sperm – arise and develop in mammalian embryos and adults.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with ROBERT MARTIENSSEN interviewed by Angelica Cibrian

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:51:43 -0700

Rob Martienssen is a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Martienssen obtained his PhD at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge University. He received postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the faculty at Cold Spring Harbor in 1989. Research in Dr. Martienssen's laboratory focuses on epigenetic mechanisms that shape and regulate the genome, and their impact on development and inheritance. His work on transposable elements in plants and repetitive sequences in fission yeast revealed a link between heterochromatin and RNA interference.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with SUSAN LINDQUIST interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:03 -0700

Susan Lindquist is a member, and former Director, of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where she guided it through the formation of the neighboring Broad Institute. She is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her PhD in Biology from Harvard in 1976 and was a postdoctoral fellow of the American Cancer Society. She was named the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in 1999 at the University of Chicago.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with NICOLE KING interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:30:17 -0700

Nicole King is reconstructing a seminal event in evolution – the transition to multicellularity that set the stage for animal origins. The King lab focuses on choanoflagellates, the closest known relatives of animals, and sponges, the earliest branching animal phylum. Using comparative genomics in choanoflagellates and sponges, this work has revealed that diverse gene families required for animal cell interactions evolved before the origin of animal multicelluarity.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with HOPI HOEKSTRA interviewed by John Inglis

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:19:23 -0700

Hopi E. Hoekstra received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. For her dissertation work, she received the Ernst Mayr Award from the Society for Systematic Biology. She then moved to the University of Arizona as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow where she studied the genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice and was awarded the American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Prize.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with NIALL FERGUSON interviewed by Matt Rridley

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:10:58 -0700

Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with RUSSELL DOOLITTLE interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:01:43 -0700

Russell F. Doolittle is in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, San Diego. His long time research interests have centered around the structure and evolution of proteins. In recent years his experimental work has dealt with the X-ray crystallography of fibrinogen and fragments of fibrin, but he has also maintained a sustained interest in the evolution of blood coagulation, a project he initiated while a graduate student. Professor Doolittle received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interviews with DANIEL DENNETT & EUGENIE SCOTT interviewed by John Inglis

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:54 -0700

Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He lives with his wife in North Andover,Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and two grandsons. He was born in Boston in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with ERIC DAVIDSON interviewed by Jane Alfred

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:54:49 -0700

Eric H. Davidson is the Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology at the California Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from Rockefeller University. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the AAAS. The major focus of research in his laboratory is on gene networks that control development and their evolution.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with BRIAN CHARLESWORTH interviewed by Matt Ridley

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:41:15 -0700

Brian Charlesworth is Professor and Head of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in genetics at Cambridge in 1969, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Richard Lewontin at the University of Chicago. He subsequently worked at the Universities of Liverpool, Sussex and Chicago, moving to Edinburgh as a Royal Society Research Professor in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research interests are in population genetics, molecular evolution and genome evolution.

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Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with THOMAS CECH interviewed by Richard Sever

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:29:34 -0700

Thomas Cech was raised and educated in Iowa (B.A. in chemistry from Grinnell College, 1970). He obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and then engaged in postdoctoral research in the department of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1978 he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 1988 and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1990. In 1982 Dr.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with SEAN CARROLL interviewed by Jane Alfred

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:19:08 -0700

Sean Carroll is Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Carroll's research has centered on those genes that control body patterns and play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with CARLOS BUSTAMANTE interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:08:47 -0700

Carlos D. Bustamante is Professor of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University. His research focuses on analyzing genome wide patterns of variation within and between species to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology, anthropology, and medical genetics. His group works on a variety of organisms and model systems ranging from humans and other primates to domesticated plant and animals to large scale simulations of microevolution.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interviews with FRANCES ARNOLD & JACK SZOSTAK interviewed by RICHARD SEVER

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:50:40 -0700

Frances H. Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where her research focuses on evolution of biological systems in the laboratory. Frances Arnold has co-authored 220 scientific publications and edited several books on protein engineering and laboratory protein evolution. She also has more than 40 patents and patent applications. Prof.

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape

Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interviews with LEIF ANDERSSON & JOHN DOEBLEY interviewed by JANE ALFRED

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:38:50 -0700