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Appendix C: Biographical Information
Pages 57-66

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... After working as an industrial scientist at Martin Marietta Laboratories, he resumed his academic career at the University of Nebraska and moved to Penn State in 1995.
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... She was co-chair of the 2009 Gordon Research Conference titled Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism & Molecular Biology, and is a current member of the UF Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Proteomics Advisory Board, the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels, the Genet ics Institute, the Center for Structural Biology, the Mass Spectrometry Users Group, and the Science for Life Howard Hughes Medical Institute Team. Maupin-Furlow has also served as a member of review panels for government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and as a panel manager for the U.S.
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... Dr. Ray has previously served as the interim deputy director for science and technology at PNNL where he was responsible for guiding the laboratory's overall capability development strategies, defining and advancing the laboratory's science and technology portfolio, coordinating its scientific discretionary invest ments, and integrating the laboratory's science and technology base to deliver essential scientific capability and accomplishments to advance the Department of Energy's missions.
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... and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, an Advanced Study Program Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at NASA Langley Research Center.
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... , and his doctorate in physiology from Tel Aviv University, where he led a joint project between Israeli and UK researchers that focused on the biophysical characterization of the yellow stripes in the oriental hornet cuticle, particularly concentrating on the special properties that allow the hornet to both absorb and then convert solar energy into activity.
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... environments, and extracellular electron transport as it relates to the cycling of iron and manganese oxides, as well as other insoluble components in sediments and other anoxic environments, and to the use of such bacteria both for bioremediation of toxic wastes, and for energy production in biofuel cells.
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... Jourdain, the title character of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilehomme, who was delighted to discover that he had been speaking prose all his life. He has published over 250 papers, and has won the Sidhu Award, the Feynman Prize, the Emerging Technologies Award, the Tulip Award in DNA Computing, the World Technology Network Award in Biotechnology, the NYACS Nichols Medal, the SCC Frontiers of Science Award, and the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
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... She was editor and then editorin-chief of the scholarly journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. She has been generously funded through various programs of DOE for the past 23 years and was appointed to the DOE Biological and Environ mental Research Advisory Board in 2009.
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... Dr. Westpheling and her colleagues have developed genetic tools for manipulation of Pyrococcus furiosus, a hyperthermophilic fermentative anaerobic archaean capable of biomass conversion at or above temperatures of 100°C, and Anaerocellum thermophilum, a thermophilic, anaerobic Gram-positive bacterium, unique in its ability to efficiently utilize untreated cellulosic bio mass.
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