Sixteen MBL Affiliates Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Sixteen members of the MBL’s research, education, and alumni communities have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Election to the Academy is widely considered a mark of excellence in science and is one of the highest honors a scientist can attain.
The NAS is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Along with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, the NAS provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Congratulations to:
Stevan Arnold, Oregon State University
Molecular Evolution Alumni '98
Judith Berman, Tel Aviv University
Optical Microscopy Alumni '94, Molecular Mycology Course Faculty '07
Andrea Brand, NYU
Embryology Alumni '09
Clifford Brangwynne, Princeton University
Whitman Scientist '23, Visiting Investigator '09,'14,'15,'20,'22, Physiology Alumni '06, Physiology Teaching Assistant '08, Physiology Course Lecturer '18, Physiology Section Leader/Chief Sci. Course Consultant '19, Physiology Course Faculty '22-'23
Elizabeth H. Chen,University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Physiology Course Lecturer '23
Arshad Desai, University of California San Diego
Physiology Course Faculty '09
Michale S. Fee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Whitman Scientist '03, Neuroscience Alumni '94, Neuroinformatics Course Faculty '02, '05, '07, Neural Systems and Behavior Course Faculty '05, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Lecturer '10-'11, '22-'23, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Faculty '12, '18-'19, '21, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Director '13-'17
Amy S. Gladfelter, Duke University
Physiology Alumni '98, Whitman Scientist '09,'15,'22-'23, Visiting Investigator '09-'23, Molecular Mycology Course Lecturer '11-'12, Molecular Mycology Course Faculty '13, Physiology Course Lecturer '15, '21, Physiology Course Faculty '16, '22, Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course Lecturer '17, Physical Biology of the Cell Course Lecturer '19
Gerald W. Hart, University of Georgia Athens
Biology of Parasitism Course Faculty '85-'88
James V. Haxby, Dartmouth College
Brains, Minds, and Machines Course Faculty '16, '18, Brains, Minds, and Machines Course Lecturer '17, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Faculty '19
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
Physiology Course Faculty '04, Physiology Course Lecturer '12, '15-'16, Physiology Course Director '14, Brains, Minds, and Machines Course Director '15, Physical Biology of the Cell Course Faculty '16, Brains, Minds, and Machines Course Lecturer '16
Lee A. Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder
MBL Science Council '13-'17, Embryology Course Faculty '97-'06, '15, Embryology Course Director '07-'11, Embryology Course Lecturer '12-'14, '16, '18, Gene Regulatory Networks for Development Course Lecturer '19
Vanessa Ruta, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University
Neurobiology Alumni '00, Neurobiology Course Lecturer '15, Neurobiology Course Faculty '16
Sebastian H. Seung, Princeton University
Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Lecturer '23
Eero Simoncelli, NYU
Brains, Minds, and Machines Course Lecturer '15, Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course Lecturer '16
Kenneth D. Stuart, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Biology of Parasitism Course Faculty '07