The McEvoy laboratory is focused on developing an understanding of how organisms handle metal ions. Organisms can face highly varying levels of metal ions through their environment or diet, and metal ion concentrations in cells must be carefully regulated. Some metal cations, such as copper, cobalt, and nickel, are essential in trace amounts, though toxic at higher concentrations. Other metal…
B.A. Xavier University of Louisiana M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School Ph.D. Harvard University Terence Keel is a Professor with a split appointment in the Department of African American Studies, and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. He has written extensively about race, religion, law, medicine and the life sciences. His widely acclaimed first book, Divine Variations (Stanford University Press, 2018), winner…
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison M.S., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison B.A., English, University of California, Davis Dr. Jessica Lynch is a Professor and the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education at ISG. She is a member of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group and Editor-In-Chief for the journal “Neotropical Primates”, a publication of Conservation International. Lynch is a biological anthropologist whose…
PhD in Philosophy, University of Konstanz, Germany Advanced degree (Diplom) in Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany Soraya de Chadarevian is Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics. She is a historian of science, technology and medicine with background in biology and philosophy. Her main area of interest are the life sciences in the twentieth and…
2006 Ph.D. Sociology, New York University 1996 B.A. Science Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies), Amherst College Aaron Panofsky is the Director of and a Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, as well as a Professor in Public Policy, and Sociology. He is a sociologist of science, knowledge, and culture with a special interest on the history, intellectual organization, and social…
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering (emphasis on Decision Sciences), University of Wisconsin-Madison M.S., Genetic Counseling, Sarah Lawrence College B.A., Biology and Spanish, Indiana University Christina Palmer is a genetic counselor who has been a UCLA faculty member since she joined the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics and Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences in 1999. Dr. Palmer holds joint appointments in the Department…