Preeminent National Academies
National Academy of Sciences Members at the University of Florida
Linda M. Bartoshuk
Election Year: 2003
NAS Section: Psychology
Research/Expertise: Bartoshuk is a leading psychologist who studies the genetic variation in taste perception, oral pain, and taste disorders. She has demonstrated that inhibitory processes underlie normal and abnormal tastes, and that individual human taste differences are based on an incomplete dominant gene. She has also shown that those who experience the most intense taste have an especially large number of fungiform papaillae on their tongue.
Kenneth Berns
Election Year: 1995
NAS Section: Microbial Biology
Research/Expertise: molecular biology of adeno-associated virus, AAV as a vector for gene therapy Citation: Berns has pioneered research on the mechanism of viral replication. He has been a major contributor to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying replication of single-stranded viral DNA, the integration of viral DNA into the host-cell genome, and viral latency.
UF Webpage: http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/kberns.htm
Robert Cousins
Election Year: 2000
NAS Section: Animal, Nutritional, and Applied Microbial Sciences
Research/Expertise: nutritional biochemistry and genomics, Zinc metabolism, transport and function, Zinc metallobiochemistry
Citation: Cousins is internationally recognized as a leading authority and investigator of zinc nutrition, metabolism, and function. He defined the hormonal and nutritional factors that regulate zinc metabolism at the cellular and molecular level and thereby significantly improved our understanding of the biological, nutritional, and clinical importance of this micronutrient.
UF Webpage: http://fshn.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/RJCousins/index.html
David Dilcher
Election Year: 1989
NAS Section: Plant Biology
Citation: Dilcher has an uncanny ability to find hitherto missing reproductive organs of flowering plant fossils. Coupled with his pioneering of a multifaceted approach, his laboratory has demonstrated the morphology of the oldest angiosperms, provided invaluable clues to their early radiation, and stimulated hope in the search for their gymnospermous ancestors.
UF Webpage: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/staff/cvs/dilcher_cv.htm
David Green
Election Year: 1978
NAS Section: Psychology
Research/Expertise: psychoacoustics, detection theory
Lonnie Ingram
Election Year: 2001
NAS Section: Animal, Nutritional, and Applied Microbial Sciences
Citation: Ingram is a world authority on genetically altering the metabolism of microbes so that they effectively convert plant materials into renewable fuels. His genetic engineering of bacteria to efficiently transform the waste materials of various crops into ethanol was a major achievement. The commercial use of Ingram's altered bacteria has become a model for emerging environmentally friendly bio-refineries that are reducing world dependence on petroleum.
UF Webpage: http://microcell.ifas.ufl.edu/ingram.html
Michael Moseley
Election Year: 2000
NAS Section: Anthropology
Research/Expertise: Andes, geoarchaeology, natural disaster
Citation: Our current view of Andean civilization has been significantly shaped by Moseley's broad and wide-ranging research. From the origins of sedentary life to the origins of urbanism, from the effects of tectonic changes on human life to man's modifications of the ecosystem, Moseley has provided us with crucial insights.
UF Webpage: http://web.anthro.ufl.edu/faculty/Moseley.shtml
Neil Opdyke
Election Year: 1996
NAS Section: Geology
Citation: Opdyke's pioneering studies of the Earth's ancient magnetic field confirmed the hypothesis of continental drift and provided insight into the timing of mammalian evolution and migration, and into the nature of paleoclimatic conditions. His study of geomagnetic reversals in deep sea cores led to the theory of plate tectonics.
UF Webpage: http://web.geology.ufl.edu/faculty/Opdyke.html
Philip Teitelbaum
Election Year: 1974
NAS Section: Psychology
UF Webpage: http://www.psych.ufl.edu/Programs/BN/Teitelbaum.htm
J. G. Thompson
Election Year: 1971
NAS Section: Mathematics
UF Webpage: http://www.math.ufl.edu/fac/thompson.html
Elizabeth Wing
Election Year: 2006
NAS Section: Environmental Archaeology
UF Webpage: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/directory/cvs/ewing_cv.htm
