CSHL Stem Cells Symposium Chats

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JANE ALFRED Development	Jane Alfred is the Executive Editor of the journal Development. After doing her PhD and post doctoral research in developmental genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit and at Edinburgh University, Jane left research to take up an editorial post at the Trends journals in Cambridge, UK, where she became the Editor of Trends in Genetics. She then moved to Nature Publishing Group where she joined the editorial team that launched one of the first Nature Reviews journals, Nature Reviews Genetics. In 2002, she became Editor-in-Chief of Nature Reviews Genetics and in 2003 took up her current position.

CATHY CORMIER Harvard Med School	Cathy Cormier received her undergraduate degree in 2001 from Boston University in biochemistry and molecular biology. In 2001, she joined the Watson School at CSHL. As a NSF fellow in Dr. Yuri Lazebnik’s laboratory, she used RNAi technology to characterize a rearranged apoptotic pathway in chemotherapy treated prostate cancer cells. Graduating in April of 2007. Catherine joined Patrick Paddison’s laboratory at CSHL, where she optimized RNAi libraries to screen for genes required for differentiation in mouse embryonic stem cells. Currently, Catherine is the scientific liaison for the plasmid repository and Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) Materials Repository at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics.

RICHARD SEVER Cold Spring Harbor Lab	Richard Sever is currently Acquisitions Editor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He obtained his PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, having studied Biochemistry as an undergraduate at Oxford University. He has worked as editor on several journals, including Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Trends in Biochemical Sciences and, most recently, Journal of Cell Science, where he was Executive Editor.

JAN WITKOWSKI Cold Spring Harbor Lab	Jan Witkowski is Executive Director of the Banbury Center at CSHL, holding some 24 meetings each year, covering topics in molecular and cell biology; human genetics; neuroscience; biotechnology; and societal issues of modern biology. He obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry at NIMR, London., and carried out postdoc research at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, the Mayo Clinic, and ICRF. He ran a DNA diagnostic laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine before moving CSHL. He has published numerous papers on human genetics and the history of experimental biology and is a coauthor with Jim Watson of the textbook Recombinant DNA: Genes and Genomes. Witkowski is editor-in-chief of Trends in Biochemical Sciences.

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