Michele ShusterMichele Shuster, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, studying introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level, as well as working on several K-12 science education programs. Michele is an active participant in programs that provide mentoring in scientific teaching to postdoctoral fellows, preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including a Donald C. Roush Excellence in Teaching Award at NMSU. Michele received her Ph.D. from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.Janet VignaJanet Vigna, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she is also a Read More chevron_right

Michele ShusterMichele Shuster, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, studying introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level, as well as working on several K-12 science education programs. Michele is an active participant in programs that provide mentoring in scientific teaching to postdoctoral fellows, preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including a Donald C. Roush Excellence in Teaching Award at NMSU. Michele received her Ph.D. from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.Janet VignaJanet Vigna, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she is also a member of the Integrated Science Program. She has been teaching university-level biology for 14 years, with a special interest in effectively teaching biology to nonmajors. Her current research focuses on the environmental effects of the biological pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis on natural frog communities. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa. Gunjan SinhaGunjan Sinha is a freelance science journalist who writes regularly for Scientific American, Popular Science, Science, and Nature Medicine. Her article on the biochemistry of love, You Dirty Vole, was published in The Best American Science Writing 2003. She holds a graduate degree in molecular genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Matthew TontonozMatthew Tontonoz has been a development editor for textbooks in introductory biology, cell biology, evolution, and environmental science. He received his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University, where he did research on the neurobiology of birdsong, and his M.A. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied the history of the behavioral and life sciences. His writing has appeared in Science as Culture. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. chevron_left Read Less