Andy obtained his PhD and postdoctoral experience in molecular biology and microbiology at King's College London. Before joining Nature Biotechnology in 1996, he was Editor of Current Opinion in Biotechnology for four years. He has written numerous articles and editorials on science and technology for the popular media, including The Economist, and for trade publications. As well as frequently speaking on biotechnology issues at international meetings, he regularly organizes conferences and symposia for Nature Publishing Group in the biotechnology area.Contact: a.marshall#natureny.com*
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Michael obtained bachelor's degrees in biotechnology and art history from Rutgers University in 1993, with concentrations in industrial microbiology and ancient Greek sculpture. He is responsible for Nature Biotechnology's Resources, Book Review and Careers sections, and also manages the journal's special projects, including conferences and printed supplements. He joined the journal in 1996.Contact: m.francisco#natureny.com*
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Peter obtained his PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where he studied molecular genetic responses of plants to abiotic stresses. He did his postdoctoral work at the Rockefeller University, specifically investigating phytochrome signal transduction and the roles of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in plant signaling. He joined Nature Biotechnology in 2005.Contact: p.hare#natureny.com*
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Craig obtained his PhD in biology with Trey Ideker at the University of California, San Diego, where he used systems and computational approaches to model transcriptional regulatory networks. Prior to graduate school, Craig was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and received a bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT. He joined the Nature Biotechnology team in 2008.
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Markus did his graduate work at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he worked on characterizing protein dynamics in living cells. In his postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health he investigated the mechanisms of lipid and protein sorting during membrane transport events. He joined the journal in 2008.
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