ROB DeSALLE received his B.A. in Biology from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Washington University. His postdoctoral studies were completed at the University of California at Berkeley and he held an assistant professorship at Yale University. He currently is a curator in the Division of Invertebrates and the co-Director of the Molecular Laboratories at the American Museum of Natural History. His research utilizes high throughput DNA sequencing approaches to examine the systematics of insects, conservation biology problems, and bacterial genomics.
MICHAEL YUDELL re-ceived his B.A. from Tufts University and completed graduate work at both the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He has held the position of researcher in the Molecular Laboratories at the American Museum of Natural History, where his work focused on genome policy and ethics, and the position of health policy analyst at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He is the editor, with Rob DeSalle, of The Genomic Revolution: Unveiling The Unity Of Life. Yudell is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Drexel University.