2007 Koshland Nominees	Blurb	Institution
Andrew Fraser	C. elegans signalling, genetic interaction maps, tiling	Sanger Institute
Angelika Amon	Mitotic and meiotic cell cycle regulation in budding yeast	MIT, HHMI
Barbara Panning	Mammalian X-chromosome inactivation, biochemically	UCSF
Barry Marshall	H. pylori as cause of ulcers, Nobel	U of Western Australia
Brenda Andrews	SH3 proteins during cell cycle regulation in budding yeast	U. of Toronto
Chris Miller	Ion channels in generating cellular electricity	U of Pennsylvania, HHMI
Chris Wylie	Cell migration and organogenesis in vertebrate development	U of Cincinnati
Craig Venter	Human genome project, synthetic microbes, personal genome	C.V. Institute
Dan Hartl	Computational biology with evolutionary interests	Harvard
David Baker	Prediction and design of protein structures and interactions	U of Washington
David Julius	Neurotransmitters and their receptors, especially of pain	UCSF
E.O. Wilson	Sociobiology, chemical behavior of ants, environmentalist	Harvard
Edward Marcotte	Protein function and interaction networks	UT Austin
Elaine Fuchs	Epidermal cell development and function	Rockefeller
Eric Kandel	Explicit and implicit memory of learned fear, Nobel	Columbia
Erik Ullian	Regulation of synaptic development in eyes	UCSF
Fred Cross	Budding yeast cell cycle control	Rockefeller
Gene Robinson	Mechanism of social behavior in honeybees	U of Illinois, Urbana
Greg Hannon	RNAi mechanism and functional uses - especially cancer	Cold Spring Harbor, HHMI
Homme Hellinga	Computational design of proteins to change ligand binding	Duke
Joan Brugge	Regulation and pathways of breast cancer migration/invasion	Harvard
Joan Massague	TGFbeta signals in proliferation and cancer	Sloan-Kettering, HHMI
Judith Campisi	Molecular basis of ageing	LBL
Jurgen Knoblich	Asymetric cell division in stem cells	Institute of Mol. Bio of Austria
Karel Svoboda	Information processing and plasticity of mammalian cortex	Janelia
Kevin Peterson	Molecular paleobiology of Cambrian explosion	Dartmouth
Lee Niswander	Genetic and cellular mechanisms of neural tube closure	U of Colorado, HHMI
Mark Ridley	Evolution of reproductive behavior, author of many books	Oxford
Mark Stoneking	Molecular anthropology, including demographics and selection	Max Planck Institute
Martin Karplus	Electronic structure, geometry, and dynamics of molecules	Harvard
Massimo Scanziani	Informational sorting by neurons	UCSD
Matt Meselson	Evolutionary genetics of ancient asexuality (rotifers)	Harvard
Michael Elowitz	Synthetic genetic circuits to study variability, cell fate, etc.	Cal Tech
Mina Bissell	Morphogenesis of breast cancer	LBL
Rachel Green	Regulation of translation elongation and termination	Johns Hopkins
Richard Axel	Olfactory recognition and perception, Nobel	Columbia
Richard Dawkins	Evolutionary biologist, author of Selfish Gene and The God Delusion	Oxford
Richard Wrangham	Human behavioral evolution, comparison with primates	Harvard
Robert Trivers	Sociobiologist, studying deceit and self-deception	Rutgers
Robert Weinberg	Molecular mechanisms of cancer	MIT/Whitehead
Rod MacKinnon	Structure and function of ion channels and regulatory proteins	Rockefeller
Roger Tsien	Imaging (G-Camp, GFP derivatives) and cancer	UCSD, HHMI
Rudi Aebersold	Proteomics and systems biology	Institute for Systems Biology
Ruslan Medzhitov	Innate immunity, adaptive immunity, inflammation	Yale
Seymour Benzer	Behavior, aging, and neurodegeneration using Drosophila	Cal Tech
Stephen C. Harrison	Structure of virus particles, vesicles, kinetochores	Harvard
Thomas J Hudson	International HapMap project, human genome physical map	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Tom Blundell	Structural bioinformatics, superfamily comparative modelling	Cambridge
W. Ford Doolittle	Evolutionary genomics, role of lateral gene transfer, introns, etc.	Dalhousie University