ALABAMA JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND THE GORGAS COMPETITION WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2022
Dr. 简•戴维斯 is a retired aerospace professional with experience as an astronaut, engineer, and senior manager. She is an Alabama resident and is very active in supporting community functions.
Dr. Davis has Bachelor of Science degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1975) and Auburn University (1977) in biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, 分别. She did her graduate research work in mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, earning a master’s degree (1983) and doctoral degree (1985).
Dr. Davis began her National and Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) career at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1979 as an aerospace engineer. After supporting major NASA programs and projects, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, she became a team lead and lead engineer for the redesign of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster External Tank attach ring.
1987年，博士. Davis was selected to join the Astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She spent more than 670 hours in space as a mission specialist over the course of her three Space Shuttle flights: STS-47 (1992), STS-60 (1994), 和STS-85 (1997). During these flights, she orbited the Earth 445 times. In 1998, she became the Director of the Human Exploration and Development of Space Independent Assurance Office for NASA Headquarters. Dr. Davis returned to MSFC and served as the Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at the Marshall Center until August 2003. Prior to retiring from NASA in 2005, Dr. Davis was the Director of Safety and 任务 Assurance at MSFC leading up to the successful Return to Flight of the Space Shuttle in 2005. 从NASA退休后, she was an executive with NASA contracts at MSFC with Jacobs for eleven years and with Bastion Technologies.
She was elected to the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame and the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame. In 2002, she was given the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive, and she has received NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal, 空间奖章, 及杰出领导奖章. Auburn University named her as a Distinguished Engineer in 2017.
Dr. 简•戴维斯 Biographical information from http://astrafemina.org/jan-davis-bio
Dr. Richard M. 迈尔斯博士, joined the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in 2008 as President and Science Director and was named M. A. 2020年担任Loya基因组学主席. He supplies the strategic oversight for the research enterprise at the Institute including sustaining a large, 活跃的实验室. Myers brings 38 years of experience in genetics and genomics to his position.
Myers received his BS in biochemistry from The University of Alabama in 1976 and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in the lab of Robert Tjian in 1982. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the lab of Tom Maniatis, and then joined the faculty of the University of California, 旧金山, 1985年的医疗中心. He moved to Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993, where he served as professor and chair in the department of genetics. 在迈尔斯的指导下, the Stanford Human Genome Center with the Joint Genome Institute contributed more than 10 percent of the data in the public Human Genome Project’s efforts to sequence the human genome.
迈尔斯实验室, in collaborative relationships with other researchers at HudsonAlpha and elsewhere, studies the human genome with the goal of understanding how allelic variation and gene expression changes contribute to human traits, 包括疾病, 行为和其他表型. His group uses high-throughput genomic methods – including DNA sequencing, 基因分型, 染色质免疫沉淀反应, mRNA表达谱, transcriptional promoter and DNA methylation measurements – as well as computational and statistical tools to identify, characterize and understand the functional elements encoded in our genomes and how they work together at the molecular level in normal and pathological conditions. 实验室对整个基因组进行测序, whole exomes and targeted regions of the genome, as well as in functional genomics experiments, with ultrahigh-throughput DNA sequencing technologies to study clinical and basic biological problems. Researchers in the Myers Lab integrate these functional genomics, epigenetic and genetic data to understand how genomes are involved in brain disorders, 肌萎缩性侧索硬化症, 癌症, children born with developmental disorders, autoimmune diseases and other traits.
Dr. Richard M. Myers Biographical Information from http://www.hudsonalpha.org/faculty/richard-myers/
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