Berg, Jeremy M. : Johns Hopkins University

Jeremy M. Berg has been Professor and Director of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1990. A student of Lubert Stryer, he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Stanford and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He is recipient of American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1994), the Eli Lilly Award for Fundamental Research in Biological Chemistry (1995), the Maryland Outstanding Scientist of the Year (1995), and the Harrison Howe Award (1997). While at Johns Hopkins, he has received the W. Barry Wood Teaching Award (selected by medical students as the outstanding teacher in the preclinical years), the Graduate Student Teaching Award (selected by graduate students), and the Professor's Teaching Award for the Preclinical Sciences.

Tymoczko, John L. : Carleton College

John L. Tymoczko is the Towsley Professor of Biology at Carleton College, where he has taught since 1976. He currently teaches Biochemistry, the Biochemistry Lab, Oncogenes and the Molecular Biology of Cancer, Exercise Biochemistry and co-teaches the introductory course, Bioenergetics and Genetics. Tymoczko received his BA at the University of Chicago in 1970, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Chicago with Shutsung Liao at the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research in 1973. He followed that with a post-doctoral position with Hewson Swift of the Department of Biology at the University of Chicago. Tymoczko's research has focused on steroid receptors, ribonucleoprotein particles, and proteolytic processing enzymes, and his work has been widely published.

Stryer, Lubert : Stanford University