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Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Pages 595-604
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Having trained with theoretical epidemiologists and experimental microbiologists, and collaborated with veterinary and medical schools, Dr. Brown has developed the strong conviction that by closing the gap between molecular genetics, evolutionary ecology, and epidemiology, real progress in the management of infectious diseases can be made, while casting light on and expanding fundamental questions in ecology and evolution.
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Dr. Cavanaugh is a visiting investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a member of the Marine Biological Laboratory Corporation, Committee on Courses, and Science Council, and an associate member of the Broad Institute.
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in biological sciences from Stanford University, where he worked on the evolution of DNA repair processes in the lab of Philip C Hanawalt and his undergraduate degree in biology from Harvard College.
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In 2011, she was one of 11 individuals selected by President Barack Obama to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring and recently co-chaired a working group that produced the report to the President, Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, about improving STEM education in postsecondary education. Susan Holmes, Ph.D., is professor in statistics at Stanford University and is a specialist in nonparametric complex multivariate data analyses.
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In addition, he pursues a longstanding fascination with collective bacterial motility -- particularly swarming in the utterly beautiful pattern-forming bacterium Paenibacillus vortex. Jared Leadbetter, Ph.D.'s research program at the California Institute of Technology focuses on interspecies microbial interactions and has had two distinct thrusts.
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He is also a member of the Max Planck Society and honorary director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, co-director of the Hopkins Microbial Diversity Program at Stanford, Principle Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He completed his Ph.D.
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This research integrates theory and methods from ecology, population biology, environmental microbiology, genomics, and clinical medicine. During the past few decades, his research directions have also included pathogen discovery and the development of new strategies for identifying previously unrecognized microbial agents of disease.
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In September 2011 she was promoted to full professor. She was a Pew Fellow in biochemical sciences, an Ellison Foundation New Scholar Award in Global Infectious Diseases, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases, and Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow.
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For his thesis and subsequent postdoctoral work (Delft University of Technology) , he developed a mathematical modeling framework for the behavior of bacterial biofilms, which he applied to problems in environmental biotechnology such as wastewater treatment.
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