Michael Dickinson (biologist)
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Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing.
He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989.[3] He was previously part of the faculty at the University of Chicago,[4] the University of California, Berkeley,[5] and the University of Washington.[6]
He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology.[7] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[8]
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Awards
- 1990 Larry Sandler Memorial Award
- 2001 MacArthur Fellows Program [9]
- 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10]
Sources
- "Micro Warfare", Popular Mechanics, Feb 2001
- "Flyorama", Popular Science, Dec 2002
References
- ↑ http://www.bbe.caltech.edu/content/michael-h-dickinson
- ↑ http://dickinsonlab.caltech.edu/
- ↑ http://www.icb.ucsb.edu/people/researchers_profile.php?ResearcherID=32
- ↑ http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/1995/19950000-how-flies-fly.html
- ↑ http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/G/ucb773.html
- ↑ http://nyti.ms/1BdXFAO
- ↑ http://jeb.biologists.org/site/about/editor_bios.xhtml
- ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/nsbmbl/ns-b-history
- ↑ http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/10/24_macarthur.html
- ↑ http://www.caltech.edu/news/two-faculty-members-join-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-1420
External links
- "Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight", New York Times
- "Flies In Danger Escape With Safety Dance", NPR, Joe Palca
- "Fly Flight Simulators", ScienCentral
- "Michael H. Dickson", Scientific Commons
- "How a fly flies" (TED conference)
