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Biography: After leaving EMBL I worked at UCLA for 3 years and took an additional training program at Woods Hole Cell Physiology Course. In 1993 I left UCLA to take a faculty position in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern Medical School. In 1996 I moved to Indiana University Medical School where I am a faculty in the Division of Nephrology. We have been working to extend the utility of light microscopy methods by using multiphoton imaging to image into live animals.

Biography: EDUCATION/TRAINING
1996 PhD, Biology Department, Yale University
1993 MPhil, Biology Department, Yale University
1991 MS, Biology Department, Yale University
1988 BA, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology, Northwestern University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006–present Scientific Editor and Writing Consultant, the University of Iowa
Established the Scientific Editing Service for the basic sciences community within the college of medicine, to promote the success of grant and research-article submissions (advice on content, presentation and mechanics)
Involvement in Teaching
• Course Director/Instructor, mini-course Paper Writing in Practice (fall semester 2011)
• Co-Instructor, course Critical Thinking and Communication (spring and fall semesters, 2008–2011)
• Facilitator, course Teaching Your Research (summer 2010)
• Presenter of workshops/seminars/webinars on scientific writing, productive paper submission, grantsmanship and alternative careers for scientists
• Mentor for scientific editing intern, spring 2010

2000–2006 Editor, EMBO reports
• Special projects, 2006: EMBO/EMBC Annual Report 2005; Editorial Board report on fates of manuscripts rejected by The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports
• Responsible for Scientific Reports section 2003–2005
• Responsible for Reviews section 2000–2003

1996–2000 Post-Doctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Prof. Marek Mlodzik)
1989–1996 Graduate Student, Yale University (Prof. Spryidon Artavanis-Tsakonas)
1988–1989 Research Technician, Northwestern University (Prof. Gideon Dreyfuss)
1986–1988 Independent Study Student, Northwestern University (Prof. Gideon Dreyfuss)
1984–1987 Summer Intern, Argonne National Laboratory (Drs. Meyrick Peak, Christopher Reilly)

Biography: B.S. Penn State University

Biography: EDUCATION

Graduate Student in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD USA (2003-2008)

A.B. Molecular and Cell Biology, Emphasis Genetics and Development
University of California, Berkeley, California USA (2000)


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

European Molecular Biology Laboratory-Heidelberg, Germany (March 2002-July 2003)
Research Technician
§ Anopheles gambiae transgenesis with multiple fluorescent markers (dsRED, EGFP) and multiple transposable element gene vectors (piggyBac, Minos) with eventual extension to in vivo reverse genetics.
§ Reverse genetics with through generation of dominant negative (RNAi) and inducible dominant positive (transgenesis) mutants in An. gambiae.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Disease Division of Parasitic Disease/Entomology Branch (Sept. 2000?Feb. 2002)
Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Research Fellow
§ Germline transformation of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae with a piggyBac transposable element vector.
§ Development and optimization of the existing protocol for microinjection of An. gambiae.
§ Molecular and genetic analysis of An. gambiae transformants.
§ Dissection of Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum infected transgenic Anopheles stephensi to determine efficacy of refractory phenotype.
§ Culturing of Anopheles cell lines for in vitro excision and transposition assays of piggyBac function.
§ Culturing of Anopheles mosquito stocks.
§ Assisted in surveillance of WNV in Atlanta Metro during 2001 Season.
§ Assisted in coordination of CDC emergency response during 2001 Anthrax Bioterror Crisis.

Biography: After being awarded a D.Phil. in Physics, Peter worked as a Research Fellow at the University of York in the UK and then as a scientist or staff member at research laboratories in the UK, Germany, and the US. In 1989, Peter and two others started Vista Control Systems, developing software for data acquisition, SCADA, and process control.

Peter has worked on CAMAC hardware and software standards, and has organized conferences and exhibits. He wrote data acquisition software for a synchrotron radiation facility and for the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Since completing his degrees, he has worked exclusively in the fields of real-time software and hardware, mostly applied to research. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Peter led a group that developed control systems for charged particle beam accelerators and storage rings.

Peter is an active member of IEEE, and has served as secretary, vice president, and president of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society. IEEE acknowledged his service to the society by presenting him with the 2002 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the European Physics Society, the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, the Instrument Society of America, the Industrial Computer Society, and the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers. With over 60 papers published in journals and at conferences, Peter is an established member of the physics and process controls community.