2026 AAAS Fellows Include MBL Alumni and Affiliates

Congratulations to twenty-nine members of the MBL community recently elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS Fellows are honored as distinguished amongst their peers for advancing science in service to society.

New Fellows of the AAAS Sections on Biological Sciences and Neurosciences that have prior ties to the MBL include:

Section on Biological Sciences

Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth College, Whitman Scientist '13, '16, '17, Nikon Fellow '14, Physiology Course Lecturer '16, '23

Seth R. Bordenstein, Pennsylvania State University, Former MBL Adjunct Scientist, MBL Society Member '05-'07

Andrew D. Chisholm, University of California San Diego, Neurobiology Course Faculty '07,'08,'10, Neurobiology Course Lecturer '10,'11

Ram Dixit, Washington University in St. Louis, AQLM Alumni '08

David Jonah Grunwald, University of Utah, Embryology Course Lecturer '15-'16, Embryology Course Faculty '17

Gerald W. Hart, University of Georgia, Biology of Parasitism Course Faculty '85, '86, '87, '88

Timothy Yong James, University of Michigan, Optical Microscopy Alumni '08

Carole LaBonne, Northwestern University, Embryology Course Director '21-'23

Michael Laub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physical Biology of the Cell Course Lecturer '18

Amy Louise Lawton-Rauh, Clemson University, Molecular Evolution Alumni '04

Petra Anne Levin, Washington University in St. Louis, Physiology Course Lecturer '23

David J. Lohman, City College of New York, City University of New York, Biological Informatics Alumni '08

Erika L. Matunis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Frontiers in Reproduction Course Lecturer '17-'18, '22-'23, Frontiers in Reproduction Section Leader/Chief Science Course Consultant '21

Jason L. Rasgon, Pennsylvania State University, Biology of Parasitism Course Lecturer '16

Gaius R. Shaver, Marine Biological Laboratory, MBL Senior Scientific Staff, MBL Society Member '81-present

Carolyn D. Silflow, University of Minnesota, Physiology Course Faculty '83

Jan M. Skotheim, Stanford University, AQLM Alumni '06

Frank John Slack, Harvard Medical School, Microbiology (now Microbial Diversity) Alumni '90

Tin Tin Su, University of Colorado Boulder, Whitman Scientist '08 Colwin Endowed Research Fellowship

JoAnn Trejo, University of California San Diego, AQLM Alumni '03

Amy Cheng Vollmer, Swarthmore College, Microbial Diversity Course Lecturer '17

Noah K. Whiteman, University of California, Berkeley, Physiology Course Lecturer '23

Section on Neuroscience

Elizabeth A. Buffalo, University of Washington, Neuroinformatics Alumni '02

Alexander Chesler, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Neurobiology Course Lecturer '23

André A. Fenton, New York University, Whitman Scientist 19-22 (Fuortes Fellow, Lillie Fellow, Colwin Endowed Research Fellow), Neural Systems and Behavior Course Lecturer '10, Neural Systems and Behavior Course Director '13-'18, Summer Program in Neuroscience Excellence and Success Course Faculty '14-'15

Jack L. Gallant, University of California, Berkeley, Neural Systems and Behavior Course Lecturer '10, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Lecturer '13, '14, '16, '17

Rae Nishi, Independent Consultant, Neurobiology Alumni '77, Neurobiology Course Faculty '81-'84, '15, Neurobiology Course Director '04-'07, Summer Program in Neuroscience Excellence and Success Course Faculty '08-'13, '15, Director of Education '16-'18, Senior Scientist '18-'19, MBL Society Member '07-Present

Tatyana O. Sharpee, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Alumni '01, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Faculty '12

Linda Wilbrecht, University of California, Berkeley, Neurobiology Alumni '98, Rapid Electrochemistry Alumni '00