Daniel Evanko conducted bench research for 15 years beginning as an undergraduate in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. After receiving his Ph.D. at Thomas Jefferson University, he studied G protein targeting and regulation under Phil Wedegaertner. He then worked with Phil Haydon at the University of Pennsylvania on fluorescence imaging technologies and the study of astrocyte-neuron interactions. He joined Nature Methods in August of 2004 and became editor in 2008
Nicole Rusk obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Vienna with Roland Foisner, studying the cell cycle-dependent regulation of the cytoskeletal protein Plectin. For postdoctoral work she joined Robert Nissenson's laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, to investigate trafficking and signaling of the G-protein-coupled receptor for parathyroid hormone. Then Nicole moved to the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute, where she worked as an Assistant Investigator with Marc Symons on characterizing the functions of the lipid phosphatase Synaptojanin 2, an effector of the small GTPase Rac. She joined Nature Methods in May 2004.
Allison Doerr began conducting research in chemistry as an undergraduate at Vassar College, where she studied polymer synthesis and characterization. She recently obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University working in George McLendon's laboratory. There, she studied de novo protein receptor design and investigated protein-ligand interactions using NMR spectroscopy. Allison joined Nature Methods as an Editorial Intern in February 2005.
Natalie de Souza obtained her Ph.D. at the Rockefeller University in 2002, employing biochemical, imaging and cell culture-based approaches to study the biogenesis and traffic of oligomeric membrane proteins, in the laboratory of Sandy Simon. She then moved to developmental genetics in the laboratory of Iva Greenwald at Columbia University, where she did post-doctoral work on the regulation of LIN-12/Notch signaling in C. elegans epithelial cells, and its role in cell fate specification. She joined the journal in December 2006.
Nathan Blow obtained his Ph.D. at Syracuse University, studying molecular evolution of vertebrate visual pigments. He did postdoctoral work at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School exploring host-pathogen interactions and immune response to Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera. Nathan joined the Nature Methods team in April 2007 as the Technology Editor for Nature Methods and Nature.
