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Appendix B Committee Biographies
Pages 152-158

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... Dr. Handelsman is an editor for Applied and Environmental Microbiology and the book series, Controversies in Science and Technology, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Life Sciences and the National Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial 
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... He has 30 years experience leading internationally recognized research on understanding the ecology, physiology, and biochemistry of microbial processes important in nature and of value to industry, especially to find ways to destroy hazardous wastes and to use DNA-based technologies to explore the unknown microbial world. He has received the Soil Science Research Award from the Soil Science Society of America, the Environmental Award from the American Society for Microbiology and shared the 1992 Finley Prize given by UNESCO for research contributions in microbiology of international significance.
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... He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and of the Academia Europeae, a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, and past president of the British Genetical Society. Isaac K.O.
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... W Ford Doolittle is the Director of the Program in Evolutionary Biology of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, holds a Canada Research Chair in Comparative Microbial Genomics, and is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University.
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... Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Genome Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. He received his A.B.
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... He has remained at Washington University for his entire professional career. From 1991 to 2004, he was Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology.
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... . From 1986 to 1994, she was Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where her lab investigated bacterial chromosome structure and function, and her research group discovered Topoisomerase IV in Salmonella typhimurium, as well as a genetic strategy for identifying new antimicrobial targets.


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