About the Author
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Lizabeth A. Allison is Chancellor Professor of Biology at the
College of William & Mary. She received her Ph.D. in Zoology from
the University of Washington, specializing in molecular and
cellular biology. Before coming to William & Mary, she spent
eight years as a faculty member at the University of Canterbury
in New Zealand. Liz teaches introductory biology for majors and
upper-division molecular biology courses. She has mentored
graduate students and more than 100 undergraduate research
students, many of them coauthoring papers with her on
intracellular trafficking of the thyroid hormone receptor in
normal and cancer cells. The recipient of numerous awards,
including a State Council for Higher Education in Virginia
(SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009, Liz received one of
the three inaugural Arts & Sciences Faculty Awards for Teaching
Excellence in 2011, and a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence in
2012. In addition to her work on this text, she is author of
Fundamental Molecular Biology, now in its second edition, with a
third edition underway.
Michael Black received his Ph.D. in Microbiology & Immunology
from Stanford University School of Medicine as a Howard Hughes
Predoctoral Fellow. After graduation, he studied cell biology as
a Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. His current research
focuses on the use of molecules to identify and track the
transmission of microbes in the environment. Michael is a
professor of Cell & Molecular Biology at California Polytechnic
State University in San Luis Obispo, where he teaches
introductory and advanced classes for majors in cell biology and
microbiology. In addition to his teaching and research
activities, Michael serves as the director of the Undergraduate
Biotechnology Lab, where he works alongside undergraduate
technicians to integrate research projects and inquiry-based
activities into undergraduate classes.
Jeff Carmichael received his B.S. in Biology from Slippery Rock
University in Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Biology from
the University of Georgia. As an undergraduate student, he spent
some time studying enzyme kinetics through a fellowship at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. His graduate work focused
on sexual reproduction in an intriguing group of seed s. He
has been teaching and coordinating Introductory Biology at the
University of North Dakota for more than 20 years. He also serves
in the Office of Instructional Development where he helps other
faculty members incorporate evidence-based best teaching
practices in their courses. He has received excellence in
teaching awards at UND and as a graduate student in Georgia. His
revision of Unit 6 and part of Unit 5 of the Sixth Edition is his
first foray into textbook writing.
Scott Freeman received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University
of Washington and was subsequently awarded an Alfred P. Sloan
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Evolution at Princeton
University. He has done research in evolutionary biology on
topics ranging from nest parasitism to the molecular systematics
of the blackbird family and is coauthor, with Jon Herron, of the
standard-setting undergraduate text Evolutionary Analysis. Scott
is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the
University of Washington and is currently a Senior Lecturer in
the UW Department of Biology, where he teaches introductory
biology for majors, a writing-intensive course for majors called
The Tree of Life, and a graduate seminar in college science
teaching. Scott’s current research focuses on how active learning
affects student learning and academic performance.
Greg Podgorski received his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular
Biology from Penn State University and has been a postdoctoral
fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry and Columbia
University. His research interests are in biology education,
developmental genetics, and computational biology. Greg’s most
recent work has been in mathematical modeling of how patterns of
different cell types emerge during development and how tumors
recruit new blood vessels in cancer. Greg has been teaching at
Utah State University for more than 20 years in courses that
include introductory biology for majors and for nonmajors,
genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, and microbiology,
and he has offered courses in nonmajors biology in Beijing and
Hong Kong. He’s won teaching awards at Utah State University and
has been recognized by the National Academies as a Teaching
Fellow and a Teaching Mentor.
Kim Quillin received her B.A. in Biology at Oberlin College
summa cum laude and her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the
University of California, Berkeley as a National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellow. Kim has worked in the trenches with
Scott Freeman on every edition of Biological Science, starting
with the ground-up development of the illustrations in the first
edition in 1999 and expanding her role in each edition, always
with the focus of helping students to think like biologists. Kim
currently teaches introductory biology at Salisbury University, a
member of the University System of Maryland, where she is
actively involved in the ongoing student- centered reform of the
concepts-and-methods course for biology majors. Her current
research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning with
an emphasis on visual model-based reasoning as a science process
skill.
Emily Taylor earned a B.A. in English at the University of
California, Berkeley followed by a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences
from Arizona State University, where she conducted research in
the field of environmental physiology as a National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She is currently an
associate professor of Biological Sciences at the California
Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Her
student-centered research program focuses on the endocrine and
reproductive physiology of freeranging reptiles, especially
rattlesnakes. She teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate
courses, including introductory biology, anatomy and physiology,
endocrinology, and herpetology, and received the California
Faculty Association’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2010 and
Cal Poly’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012.
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