19 LMS Lightning Round 2 Bermudes Falkowski Owen Jones Dorfman

Dr. David Bermudes received his BA in Biology at Oberlin College and a PhD from Boston University in Cell and Molecular Biology where he was a University Fellow and a National Science Foundation Research Fellow. While at BU he was the Administrator for NASA PBI program and also served on the NASA's study committee "The Case for Mars." He did postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin Center for Great Lakes Studies and at the Medical College of Wisconsin where he was a National Institute of Environmental Health Science Fellow and at the Yale University School of Medicine where he was a National Research Service Award Fellow. Dr. Bermudes was later appointed to Yale's Research Faculty and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Yale. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at California State University, Northridge where he conducts research and teaches microbiology. Dr. Paul G. Falkowski is the Bennett Smith Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Business School at Rutgers University and is also the Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute. His scientific interests include evolution of the Earth systems, paleoecology, photosynthesis, biophysics, biogeochemical cycles, and symbiosis. Dr. Falkowski earned his BS and MSc degrees from the City College of the City University of New York and his PhD from the University of British Columbia. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rhode Island, he ...