Speakers

  • Jeanne Lenzer

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    Freelance investigative journalist; Regular Contributor, British medical journal, BMJ

    Jeanne Lenzer is a medical investigative journalist and regular contributor to the British medical journal, BMJ. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Discover, The New Republic, The American Prospect, USA Today, Newsweek Japan and many other outlets. She was a fellow in the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT in 2006-2007.

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  • Robin Lloyd

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    News Editor, Online, Scientific American

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  • Stephen Macknik, Ph.D.

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    Director, Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

    Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, now husband and wife, were both postdoctoral fellows in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate David Hubel at Harvard, where they trained as visual neuroscientists. They are the founders of the exciting new discipline of NeuroMagic - and also members of the Magic Castle, Magic Circle, International Brotherhood of Magicians, and the Society of American Magicians.

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  • Jane Marks, Ph.D.

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    Associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University

    Jane Marks is an expert on freshwater ecosystems and how they respond to environmental disruptions.

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  • Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D.

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    Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

    Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, now husband and wife, were both postdoctoral fellows in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate David Hubel at Harvard, where they trained as visual neuroscientists. They are the founders of the exciting new discipline of NeuroMagic

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  • Betsy Mason

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    Editor, Wired.com

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  • Geoff McGhee

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    Creative Director of Media and Communications, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University

    Geoff McGhee is an online journalist specializing in multimedia and information graphics. Over the past decade he has worked at The New York Times and ABCNews.com, and in France at Le Monde Interactif. In 2009-2010, he spent a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University studying data visualization. In July 2010, McGhee began a new job developing visualizations and interactive content for the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford.

  • Michael Mechanic

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    Senior Editor, Mother Jones

    Michael Mechanic is a senior editor at Mother Jones. He has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, a MS in developmental biology, and a Master of Journalism degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written for the Industry Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and Wired, among other publications. He also contributed to Mother Jones' Torture Hits Home package, which was a finalist for the 2009 National Magazine Award for public interest.

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  • Dennis Meredith

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    Science writer; Research communication consultant

    Dennis Meredith is author of Explaining Research (Oxford 2010). His career as a science communicator has included service at some of the country's leading research universities, including MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Duke and the University of Wisconsin. He has worked with science journalists at all the nation's major newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV networks and has written well over a thousand news releases and magazine articles on science and engineering over his career. He has served on the executive board of the National Association of Science Writers and is a contributor to its magazine ScienceWriters. He wrote the NASW handbook on media relations, Communicating Science News. He has also served as a judge for the NASW Science in Society Awards and the AAAS Science Writing Awards.

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  • A'ndrea Messer

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    Senior Science & Research Information Officer, Research Communications, Penn State University

    A graduate of Purdue in Science and Culture (chemistry), Boston University in Journalism/Science Communication, A'ndrea Messer is a veteran science communicator and press officer at Penn State University where she covers the natural science waterfront. At Penn State, where she has worked for 22 years, Messer writes about research of all kinds and advises faculty, staff and students on all aspects of media relations.

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