Joseph Ecker is a Professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory and the Director of the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Ca. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and carried out postdoctoral studies with Ronald Davis at the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University. He served on the Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1987-2000) before joining The Salk Institute for...