Garland Allen

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Allen is a historian of science. The major focus of his present research is on the history of genetics and its relationship to eugenics and agriculture in the United States between 1900 and 1950. In addition to an interest in Mendelian genetics, agriculturists and eugenicists also believed that the ...

Ursula Goodenough

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Leading cell biologist and Washington University professor of biology Ursula Goodenough, is the author of a bestselling textbook, Genetics, and also wrote the popular discourse on religion and science The Sacred Depths of Nature, which was named Oustanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice. She has served ...

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Has discovered a single gene in barley that controls several traits--height, maturity, drought resistance and strength. Moreover, he has genetically engineered a molecular switch that could turn on the process of such a gene. Impacts on agriculture could be immense. American farmers could save more ...

Knight

Knight is an ecologist who studies the population ecology of rare and invasive plant species, and addresses questions related to the causes and consequences of their abundances and distributions. Why are some species rare, while their closely related congeners are widespread? How does dispersal ability ...

Losos

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The primary focus of the Losos Lab is on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards. Major questions concern how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard lineages have diversified evolutionarily. Addressing such questions requires integration of behavioral, ecological, functional ...

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

Stone is an ecological anthropologist who has studied indigenous agricultural systems for the past 20 years. He has written extensively on intensification, labor organization, sexual division of labor, ethnicity and production, spatial organization and especially relationships between population, conflict ...

John Steven Taylor

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Taylor is a chemist who has developed an alternative to chemotherapy that relies on using sequences of mutated human DNA as a trigger to release a drug. The sequence is not used as a target, rather as a trigger to cause the catalytic release of a drug. Taylor, a synthetic organic chemist, says the ...

Alan Templeton

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Templeton applies molecular genetic techniques and statistical population genetics to a variety of problems in evolutionary and conservation biology. He explores natural selection in various species, genetic variability, the role of lipid metabolic genes in coronary artery disease in humans, and the ...