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Michael C. Crair
Michael C. Crair is an American developmental neuroscientist at Yale University, where he is William Ziegler III Professor of Neuroscience and Vice Provost for Research.
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz is an American computational biologist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2016, known for genome assembly and structural variation software, including Sniffles and Uncalled4.
Michael Carey (molecular biologist)
Michael Carey, also published as Michael F. Carey, is a UCLA molecular biologist known for work on transcriptional synergy and the enhanceosome model of eukaryotic gene regulation.
Michael Cashel
Michael Cashel (Charles Michael Cashel) was an American physician-scientist at NIH who discovered ppGpp and pppGpp, the "magic spot" nucleotides of the bacterial stringent response.
Michael Croft
Michael Croft is an immunologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego known for discovering how OX40 and LIGHT control T cells, work that led to clinical therapies.
Michael D. Been
Michael D. Been is an American biochemist and Duke University professor emeritus known for work on RNA catalysis, including the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme and Tetrahymena group I intron splicing.
Michael D. Cahalan
Michael D. Cahalan is an American immunologist and biophysicist at UC Irvine known for discovering the STIM and Orai proteins behind T-cell calcium signaling and for intravital immune imaging.
Michael D. Lairmore
Michael D. Lairmore is an American veterinary pathologist and retrovirologist who served as dean of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine from 2011 to 2021.
Michael D. Mauk
Michael D. Mauk is an American neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies learning in the cerebellum and pioneered large-scale computer simulations of cerebellar function.
Michael D. Purugganan
Michael D. Purugganan is a plant evolutionary genomicist at New York University who studies rice domestication and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Michael D. Rosenblum
Michael D. Rosenblum is an American dermatologist and immunologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on how regulatory T cells control immune responses in skin.
Michael D. Topal
Michael D. Topal is an American researcher in mutagenesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for his 1976 Nature paper on substitution mutations.
Michael D. Waterfield
Michael D. Waterfield (1941–2023) was a British biochemist and cancer researcher whose 1983 Nature paper showed that retroviral oncogenes are corrupted versions of normal growth-regulatory proteins.
Michael Denis Gale
Michael Denis Gale (1943–2009) was a British crop geneticist who defined the genetic basis of wheat dwarfism behind the green revolution and pioneered cereal genome mapping.
Michael Diamond (immunologist)
Michael S. Diamond is an American virologist and immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for research on Zika, alphaviruses, and COVID-19 mouse models.
Michael Dickinson (biophysicist)
Michael Dickinson is the Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics at Caltech, known for research on insect flight aerodynamics and neurobiology using fruit flies.
Michael Doebeli
Michael Doebeli is a Canadian-based mathematical evolutionary biologist, a professor of zoology and mathematics at the University of British Columbia, known for his work on sympatric speciation.
Michael Doudoroff
Michael Doudoroff (1911–1975) was a Russian-born American microbiologist and UC Berkeley professor who co-discovered the Entner–Doudoroff pathway, a major route of glucose degradation in bacteria.
Michael E. Goldberg
Michael E. Goldberg is an American neurologist and systems neuroscientist at Columbia University, known for showing how parietal cortex keeps the visual world stable during eye movements.
Michael E. Greenberg
Michael E. Greenberg is a neurobiologist, the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, known for defining how neuronal activity turns genes on to shape learning and brain development.
Michael E. Hasselmo
Michael E. Hasselmo is an American cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, a professor there since 1998, known for combining computational models with experiments on episodic memory, acetylcholine, and grid cells.
Michael Ehlers
Michael D. Ehlers is an American neuroscientist and pharmaceutical executive known for work on receptor trafficking at synapses, a Duke professorship, and senior research roles at Pfizer and Biogen.
Michael Elowitz
Michael B. Elowitz is a synthetic and systems biologist at Caltech and an HHMI Investigator, known for building the repressilator, the first synthetic biological oscillator.
Michael Emerman
Michael Emerman is a virologist whose laboratory at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle made fundamental discoveries about how HIV interacts with the cells it infects.
Michael Evenari
Michael Evenari, born Walter Schwarz (1904–1989), was an Israeli botanist who reconstructed ancient Nabataean runoff farms in the Negev Desert and won the 1988 Balzan Prize.
Michael F. Hammer
Michael F. Hammer is an American population geneticist at the University of Arizona whose lab used Y chromosome variation to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens.
Michael F. Summers
Michael F. Summers is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist at UMBC known for structural studies of retroviral RNA genome packaging and the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.
Michael F. Thomashow
Michael F. Thomashow is an American plant biologist at Michigan State University who discovered the CBF cold-response pathway, the first freezing-tolerance pathway described in plants.
Michael Farzan
Michael Farzan is a virologist and immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital who identified ACE2 as the SARS coronavirus receptor and developed the HIV entry inhibitor eCD4-Ig.
Michael Fischberg
Michael Fischberg, also known as Michail Fischberg, was a geneticist who trained John Gurdon at Oxford and supplied the Xenopus marker strain behind Gurdon's Nobel-recognized nuclear transfer work.