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Hooray for the Whippersnappers

Nov 21, 2008

Discover magazine celebrates young innovators with its list of 20 Best Brains Under 40. (Turns out that it's good to be at Caltech.) Several of the people profiled are of interest to this community, including:

  • Richard Bonneau, New York University (systems biology in microorganisms)
  • Edward Boyden, MIT (genetic neuroengineering)
  • Michael Elowitz, Caltech (bacterial and cellular diversity)
  • Nicole King, UC Berkeley (evolutionary genomics)
  • Sarkis Mazmanian, Caltech (human microbiome)
  • Jonathan Pritchard, University of Chicago (genetic mutations)
  • Amy Wagers, Harvard (stem cell biology)
  • Changhuei Yang, Caltech (microfluidics)

 

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