Transforming Our DNA - 2016 Annual Report

2016 MACARTHUR FELLOW Dianne Newman is an alumna of the 1987 and 1988 International Science and Engineering Fairs. She received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship for her work merging methods and approaches from disparate fields to investigate the co-evolution of bacteria and their environments. She received a B.A. (1993) from Stanford University and a Ph.D. (1997) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dianne is the Gordon M. Binder/ Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology in the Divisions of Biology and Biological Sciences as well as Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

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