James D. Watson is Chancellor Emeritus at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, where he was previously its Director from 1968 to 1993,
President from 1994 to 2003, and Chancellor from 2003 to 2007. He
spent his undergraduate years at the University of Chicago and
received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Indiana University. Between 1950
and 1953, he did postdoctoral research in Copenhagen and Cambridge,
England. While at Cambridge, he began the collaboration that
resulted in the elucidation of the double-helical structure of DNA
in 1953. (For this discovery, Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice
Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.) Later in 1953, he
went to the California Institute of Technology. He moved to Harvard
in 1955, where he taught and did research on RNA synthesis and
protein synthesis until 1976. He was the first Director of the
National Center for Genome Research of the National Institutes of
Health from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Watson was sole author of the first,
second, and third editions of Molecular Biology of the Gene,
and a co-author of the fourth, fifth and sixth editions. These were
published in 1965, 1970, 1976, 1987, 2003, and 2007, respectively.
He is also a co-author of two other textbooks: Molecular Biology
of the Cell and Recombinant DNA, as well as author of the
celebrated 1968 memoir, The Double Helix, which in 2012 was listed
by the Library Of Congress as one of the 88 books that shaped
America.
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Tania A. Baker is the Head of the Department and Whitehead
Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She
received a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University in
1988. Her graduate research was carried out in the laboratory of
Professor Arthur Kornberg and focused on mechanisms of initiation
of DNA replication. She did postdoctoral research in the laboratory
of Dr. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi at the National Institutes of Health,
studying the mechanism and regulation of DNA transposition. Her
current research explores mechanisms and regulation of genetic
recombination, enzyme-catalyzed protein unfolding, and
ATP-dependent protein degradation. Professor Baker received the
2001 Eli Lilly Research Award from the American Society of
Microbiology and the 2000 MIT School of Science Teaching Prize for
Undergraduate Education and is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences since 2004 and was elected to the National
Academy of Sciences in 2007. She is co-author (with Arthur
Kornberg) of the book DNA Replication, Second Edition.
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Stephen P. Bell is a Professor of Biology at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Investigator of the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received B.A. degrees from the
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology and
the Integrated Sciences Program at Northwestern University and a
Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in
1991. His graduate research was carried out in the laboratory of
Dr. Robert Tjian and focused on eukaryotic transcription. He did
postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Stillman at
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, working on the initiation of
eukaryotic DNA replication. His current research focuses on the
mechanisms controlling the duplication of eukaryotic chromosomes.
Professor Bell received the 2001 ASBMB–Schering Plough Scientific
Achievement Award, the 1998 Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at MIT and the 2006 MIT School
of Science Teaching Award.
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Alexander A.F. Gann is the Lita Annenberg Hazen Dean and
Professor in the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is also a Senior Editor at Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Press. He received his B.Sc in microbiology from
University College London and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from The
University of Edinburgh in 1989. His graduate research was carried
out in the laboratory of Noreen Murray and focused on DNA
recognition by restriction enzymes. He did postdoctoral research in
the laboratory of Mark Ptashne at Harvard, working on
transcriptional regulation, and that of Jeremy Brockes at the
Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research at University College London,
where he worked on newt limb regeneration. He was a Lecturer at
Lancaster University, U.K., from 1996 to 1999, before moving to
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is co-author (with Mark Ptashne)
of the book Genes & Signals (2002), and co-editor (with Jan
Witkowski) of The Annotated & Illustrated Double Helix.
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Michael Levine is a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and
Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also
Co-Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics. He received his
B.A. from the Department of Genetics at University of California,
Berkeley, and his Ph.D. with Alan Garen in the Department of
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1981.
As a postdoctoral fellow with Walter Gehring and Gerry Rubin from
1982-1984, he studied the molecular genetics of Drosophila
development. Professor Levine's research group currently
studies the gene networks responsible for the gastrulation of the
Drosophila and Ciona (sea squirt) embryos. He holds the F. Williams
Chair in Genetics and Development at University of California,
Berkeley. He was awarded the Monsanto Prize in Molecular Biology
from the National Academy of Sciences in 1996, and was elected to
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National
Academy of Sciences in 1998.
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Richard M. Losick is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of
Biology, a Harvard College Professor, and a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard
University. He received his A.B. in chemistry at Princeton
University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Upon completion of his graduate work,
Professor Losick was named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society
of Fellows when he began his studies on RNA polymerase and the
regulation of gene transcription in bacteria. Professor Losick is a
past Chairman of the Departments of Cellular and Developmental
Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.
He received the Camille and Henry Dreyfuss Teacher-Scholar Award,
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the
American Academy of Microbiology, a member of the American
Philosophical Society, and a former Visiting Scholar of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. Professor Losick is the 2007 winner of the
Selman A. Waksman Award of the National Academy of Sciences, a 2009
winner of the Canada Gairdner Award, and a 2012 winner of the
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry of Columbia
University.
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