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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 59-64

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From page 59...
... He was an NSF Plant Biology postdoctoral fellow from 1986-1989 and a founding Research Group leader of the Max Delbrucck Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Cologne, Germany from 19891995. Douglas Cook is Professor of Plant Pathology at University of California, Davis, and a Fellow of International Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genome Research at the Universitat Bielefeld.
From page 60...
... He was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institut Pasteur, and a recipient of the Darbaker Prize of the Botanical Society of America and the Gregor Mendel Medal in Biological Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
From page 61...
... Dr. Last's service to the scientific community has included chairing the Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference, organizing the Cold Spring Harbor Arabidopsis Genetics Course from 1995-1997, and serving as a member of the NIH Biological Sciences 1 Postdoctoral Fellowship Study Section.
From page 62...
... from Cambridge University, England, in 1982, and his PhD from the Plant Breeding Institute and Cambridge University in 1986. He held an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley from 1986-1988 and has been on the faculty at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1989.
From page 63...
... Chris R Somerville is director of the Department of Plant Biology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and professor of biological sciences, Stanford University.
From page 64...
... National Academy of Sciences. She is currently Associate Editor for Plant Physiology and is on the Editorial Boards of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Opinions in Plant Biology.


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