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Alberto A. Iglesias
Alberto A. Iglesias is a Professor of Biochemistry at National University of Litoral (UNL) and Principal Investigator from CONICET at the Institute for Agrobiotechnology (IAL) in Santa Fe, Argentina. His work is focused on enzymology, mainly the characterization of enzymes involved in carbon, energy, and redox metabolism in plant, protozoa, and bacteria. His studies seek
Mario E. Guido
Mario Guido is at present an Associate Professor and Independent Researcher of CONICET at the National University of Córdoba (NUC) in Argentina. He has been recently elected Vice-chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry (October 2008) and Member of the Latin American Regional Committee of the International Brain Research Organization (LARC-IBRO). The main lines of
Walter M. Farina
Walter M. Farina is an Argentine biologist. He received a M.Sc. (1989) from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. at the same university in 1993. He obtained a research Fellowship given by the German Government (DAAD) to spend two years (1991-1993) at the University of Tübingen, Germany. On completion of that Fellowship, he
Jason X.-J. Yuan
Dr. Yuan received his medical degree from Suzhou Medical College (1983). His Ph.D. in physiology (1993) was granted jointly by Peking Union Medical College and the University of Maryland, Baltimore; he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the latter from 1988 to 1991. After earning his Ph.D., he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland
Fernanda G. De Felice
Fernanda G. De Felice is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She received her M.Sc. (1997) and Ph.D. (2002) from that University as well, and joined its faculty as an assistant professor in 2002. As a graduate student she had worked in the laboratory of Sérgio T. Ferreira,
Máximo Bañados
With his first published article, Máximo Bañados established himself as an innovative, insightful physicist. “The Black Hole in Three-Dimensional Space-Time,” written with Claudio Bunster [Teitelboim] and Jorge Zanelli and published in Physical Review Letters (69 [1992], 1849), convinced many physicists that Einstein equations in three dimensions do accept black holes. A few months later he and
Guillermo L. Albanesi
Guillermo Luis Albanesi is among the world’s leading experts on Ordovician conodonts. He received his undergraduate degree in geology (1991) and Ph.D. in earth sciences (1997), with highest distinction, from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. As a doctoral student, he had worked not only at NUC, but in the laboratory of Christopher Barnes at
Carlos Alberto Luengo
Carlos Luengo obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1967 at the Balseiro Institute of Physics. As an undergraduate student there, he was noticed by Prof. E. Gaviola, an outstanding Argentine physicist (and one of Albert Einstein’s students in the twenties), who, with Prof. Leo M. Falicov, later supported his successful application for the Guggenheim Fellowship that
Susan Middleton
Susan Middleton has been dedicated to the documentation and portraiture of rare and endangered animals, plants, sites, and cultures for the past thirty years, inspired by the earth’s biological and cultural diversity and motivated by the need to protect it. She is a photographer, author, producer, curator, lecturer and educator. A graduate of the University
Robin Marantz Henig
Robin Marantz Henig is a freelance journalist, book author, and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. She has written eight books, most recently Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution, about the early days of in vitro fertilization research. She co-edited A Field Guide for Science Writers, and
R. Lawrence Edwards
Larry Edwards is a geologist with interests in climate history, climate change, and geochronology. He is the George and Orpha Gibson Chair of Earth Systems Science and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Richard Edwards, is from a distinguished American family descended from the Reverend