Summer Institute
Featured Activities and Reports
  • 2010 Institute
  • The 2010 Summer Institute will be held June 21-26, 2010, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.
  • Science article
  • The 24 April 2009 issue of Science magazine includes an article by Pfund et al. about the Summer Institute and its impact. More
  • Participant map
  • Summer Institute teams have come from institutions coast to coast: from Florida to Alaska, from Hawaii to New England. See a participant map to learn which institutions have sent teams to the Summer Institute.
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2009 Participant Teams

Columbia University
Songtao Jia, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Deborah Mowshowitz, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences; Director of Undergraduate Programs and Lab Operations
Duke University
Ron Grunwald, Lecturer of Biology
Alison Hill, Instructor of Biology
Daniel P. Kiehart, Professor of Biology
Florida State University
P. Bryant Chase, Chairman and Professor of Biological Sciences
Lloyd M. Epstein, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Tricia Spears, Associate in Biological Sciecnces
George Washington University
Ken M. Brown, Professor of Biology and of Genetics
Hartmut G. Doebel, Assistant Professor of Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Carolyn Norris, Senior Lecturer of Biology
Joel F. Schildbach, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Biology
Montana State University
Steven Kalinowski, Assistant Professor of Ecology
Meagan Snodgrass, Undergraduate Laboratory Coordinator, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
The Ohio State University
Caroline Breitenberger, Associate Professor of Biochemistry; Associate Dean, College of Biological Sciences; Director, Center for Life Sciences Education
Stephen Chordas III,
San Francisco State University
Jennifer Breckler, Professor of Biology
Carmen Domingo, Professor of Biology
Kimberly Tanner, Assistant Professor of Biology; Director, SEPAL: The Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory
Texas A&M University
Tom McKnight, Associate Head and Professor of Biology
Wayne Versaw, Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Chicago
Melina E. Hale, Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Christian Hansel, Professor of Neurobiology
University of Cincinnati
Jill R. Beyette, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Brian Kinkle, Professor and Graduate Director of Biological Sciences
University of Connecticut
Xinnian Chen, Assistant Professor-in-Resident of Physiology and Neurobiology
Daniel Mulkey, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Paul Malchow, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Michael Muller, Lecturer/Coordinator, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carla E. Cáceres, Associate Professof of Animal Biology
Tracey E. Hickox, Director, Integrative Biology Merit Program for Emerging Scholars
Jonathan Marcot, Research Assistant Professor of Animal Biology
University of Maryland, College Park
Todd Cooke, Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Jeffrey Jensen, Senior Lecturer of Biology
Marcia Shofner, Lecturer and Assistant Director, Biological Sciences Program
University of Massachusetts Boston
Katherine Elisabeth Gibson, Assistant Professor of Biology
Andrew J. Grosovsky, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics
Brian T. White, Assocaite Professor of Biology
University of Tennessee
Randy Brewton, Core Biology Coordinator and Lecturer of Biology
Stanley Guffey, Lecturer of Biology
Susan E. Riechert, UTK Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Utah
Renée Dawson, Assistant Professor-Lecturer of Biology
Jon Seger, Professor of Biology
Utah State University
Richard J. Muueller, Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Dean, College of Science
Thayne Sweeten, Biology Lecturer, Brigham City Regional Campus
Washington University in St. Louis
Kathleen Hafer, Senior Lecturer in Biology
Kathryn G. Miller, Professor and Chairman of Biology

Note: All affiliations are as of June 2009.

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