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Gary G. Borisy, Ph.D.
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Marine Biological Laboratory

Gary Borisy, Ph.D., is the Director and CEO of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Borisy brings a wealth of scientific expertise and administrative experience to the MBL. At various times throughout his career, Dr. Borisy has spent time at the MBL, conducting summer research; collaborating with resident and summer scientists; and participating in some of the MBL’s summer educational programs.

Dr. Borisy became the laboratory's 13th Director and 3rd CEO in 2006. Previously he was Associate Vice President for Research and the Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After serving a postdoctoral fellowship at the MRC in Cambridge, England, Dr. Borisy joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, rising through the professional ranks to Chairman of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Perlman-Bascom Professor of Life Sciences, before moving to Northwestern in 2000. Dr. Borisy is the author of more than 200 papers, the editor of two books, and has received numerous professional honors, including an NIH Merit award and the Carl Zeiss award from the German Society for Cell Biology. He has served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the biotech company CombinatoRx, located in Cambridge, MA.

Charles Krebs
Photographer
Charles Krebs Photography

A native New Yorker now living in Washington State, Charles Krebs has been a free-lance photographer since 1979.  His primary focus had always been nature and wildlife. In the spring of 2004, aware of the potential of digital imaging applied toward photomicrography, he set up the first microscope he’s used since his childhood. Photomicrography quickly became his passion. The use of some innovative software products for extended depth-of-field techniques has allowed the creation of certain types of images that he could only dream of five or six years ago.

Charles earned a degree in Aerospace Engineering, a MBA degree, and has served as a Captain in the US Army Reserves.  His passion for photography led to a dramatic change in his career. In addition to marketing images through major stock photo agencies, he has done assignments for, and been published in numerous magazines including Audubon, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History Magazine, National Wildlife,  National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Washington Magazine, Ranger Rick, Northwest Magazine, Geo and  Stern among others. His credits also include the books “Seattle” and “Portrait of Seattle.”

Charles has been an active participant in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition since 2004, winning 1st place honors in 2005, along with 4th, 6th (twice), 9th, 12th and 14th places over the past five years.  He is honored to be invited to join the judging panel for the Nikon Small World Competition 2009.

Jamie Shreeve
Science Editor
National Geographic

James (Jamie) Shreeve is the science editor at National Geographic. Before joining the magazine staff in 2006, he was a freelance science writer and author. His books include The Genome War ( Knopf, 2004), The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins (William Morrow, 1995), Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor  (William Morrow, 1989, with Donald Johanson), and Nature: The Other Earthlings (MacMillan, 1987), the companion volume to the public television series. 

Mr. Shreeve received his B.A. in English from Brown University in 1973.  A 1979 graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he contributed fiction to various literary magazines before turning to science writing.  From 1983 to 1985, he was Public Information Director at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.  While at the MBL, Mr. Shreeve was founder and editor of MBL Science, a magazine for general readers, and was the founding director of the MBL Science Writing Fellowship Program.  He has been awarded fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, and the Knight Foundation. Mr. Shreeve lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Clive Thompson
Journalist

Clive Thompson is journalist who covers science and technology. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, and Wired, where he writes a monthly column on the impact of technology on society. His work has been widely anthologized, and in 2002 he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. In his spare time, he runs the blog www.collisiondetection.net.

Michael W. Davidson
Director of the Optical and Magneto-Optical Imaging
Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Florida State University

Michael Davidson is the director of the Optical and Magneto-Optical Imaging Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.  Involved with various aspects of microscopy for over 25 years, Davidson's scientific interests include the packaging of DNA into virus heads, liquid crystallinity in biological systems and the adsorption of small liquid crystal molecules onto surfaces.

Davidson has authored many scientific articles on the subject of photomicrography and his photomicrographs have been published in more than a thousand national and international scientific journals, popular magazines and newspapers.  In addition, Davidson's photomicrography has won more than 40 awards in scientific and industrial photography competitions and has been exhibited at over 50 locations nationwide.  He is also the expert behind the Nikon Instruments educational Web site MicroscopyU (which can be access through the Nikon Instruments Web site at www.nikoninstruments.com) and his own www.molecularexpressions.com.