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Sereno Watson

Sereno Watson (1826–1892) was an American botanist who served on the Fortieth Parallel survey and curated Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1874 until his death.

Serge Charpak

Serge Charpak is a French neuroscientist at the Institut de la Vision in Paris who studies neurovascular coupling, the link between brain activity and blood flow.

Serge Daan

Serge Daan (1940–2018) was a Dutch chronobiologist at the University of Groningen who coauthored the 1976 Daan–Pittendrigh papers and the two-process model of sleep regulation.

Serge Y. Fuchs

Serge Y. Fuchs, also known as Serge Fuchs, is a cancer biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine who studies how tumors disable interferon signaling.

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond is a computational biologist at Temple University known for the HyPhy and Datamonkey software for detecting natural selection in genetic data.

Sergei M. Mirkin

Sergei M. Mirkin is a molecular biologist and the White Family Chair in Biology at Tufts University, best known for discovering H-DNA, the first multi-stranded DNA structure found in natural DNA.

Sergei Maslov

Sergei Maslov is a Russian-born physicist turned computational systems biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for work on protein network topology and the 2002 PECASE award.

Sergei Winogradsky

Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953) was a Ukrainian-born microbiologist who described the nitrifying bacteria, named the process chemosynthesis, and pioneered microbial ecology; the Winogradsky column is named for him.

Sergei Y. Sokol

Sergei Y. Sokol is a developmental biologist and professor at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing in 1991 that Wnt signaling induces a body axis in frog embryos.

Sergej Djuranovic

Sergej Djuranovic is a molecular biologist who studies how microRNAs and mRNA sequence motifs control protein synthesis, known for ordering the steps of miRNA silencing and professor at Brown University since 2025.

Sergey M. Bezrukov

Sergey M. Bezrukov, also published as S. M. Bezrukov, is a Russian-trained biophysicist who has led the Section on Molecular Transport at NIH since 2002.

Sergey N. Krylov

Sergey N. Krylov is a Russian-born Canadian researcher in bioanalytical chemistry at York University whose group invented kinetic capillary electrophoresis, NECEEM, and Non-SELEX aptamer selection.

Sergio Grinstein

Sergio Grinstein is a Mexican-born cell biologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children who studies how macrophages ingest and destroy microbes and how cells regulate pH.

Sergio Moreno (molecular biologist)

Sergio Moreno Pérez, born 1960, is a Spanish molecular biologist and CSIC research professor who leads the IBFG in Salamanca, known for cell-cycle regulation studies with Paul Nurse.

Sergio Stagno

Sergio Stagno is a Chilean-trained physician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases who spent his career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, defining the epidemiology of congenital cytomegalovirus infection.

Sergiu P. Pașca

Sergiu P. Pașca, also published as Sergiu Pasca, is a Romanian-born Stanford physician-scientist who pioneered assembloids, human neural circuits built from stem cells to study brain development and disease.

Seth A. Darst

Seth A. Darst is an American structural biologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Rockefeller University, known for crystal structures of bacterial RNA polymerase and SARS-CoV-2 polymerase work.

Seth Blackshaw

Seth Blackshaw is an American neuroscientist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, on the faculty since 2004, known for large-scale gene expression studies of the retina and hypothalamus.

Seth G. N. Grant

Seth G. N. Grant is a Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh who studies how synapse proteins underlie learning, memory, and behavior.

Seth L. Masters

Seth L. Masters is an Australian immunologist who heads the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Institute and is known for characterizing novel autoinflammatory diseases.

Seth R. Bordenstein

Seth R. Bordenstein is an evolutionary geneticist and microbiologist who holds the Huck Endowed Chair in Microbiome Sciences at Penn State, known for Wolbachia and holobiont research.

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum is an American physician-scientist who studies the gut microbiome as a Senior Associate Physician at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on host–microbiota mutualism and colonization resistance.

Seth S. Blair

Seth S. Blair is a developmental geneticist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies pattern formation and intercellular signaling in Drosophila.

Setsuro Ebashi

Setsuro Ebashi (江橋節郎, 1922–2006) was a Japanese physiologist at the University of Tokyo who discovered troponin and established the calcium theory of muscle contraction regulation.

Seung Y. Rhee

Seung Y. Rhee, also known as Seung Yon Rhee (이승연) or Sue Rhee, is a plant biologist directing Michigan State University's Plant Resilience Institute since 2023.

Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-born American biochemist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase, which synthesizes RNA.

Sewall Wright

Sewall Wright was an American geneticist who laid the mathematical foundations of population genetics and is credited with the inbreeding coefficient, F-statistics, and the shifting balance theory of evolution.

Seymour Benzer

Seymour Benzer was an American scientist who pioneered the molecular study of the gene in bacteriophage and founded neurogenetics through genetic analysis of fruit fly behavior.

Seymour J. Klebanoff

Seymour J. Klebanoff (1927–2016) was an American immunologist and physician at the University of Washington who discovered the myeloperoxidase antimicrobial system used by neutrophils to kill bacteria.

Seymour Jonathan Singer

Seymour Jonathan Singer, often published as S. Jonathan Singer, was an American biochemist at UC San Diego best known for the fluid mosaic model of cell membranes, proposed in 1972.