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BSCS Development Team

Joseph D. McInerney, Co-Principal Investigator
Lynda B. Micikas, Co-Project Director

April L. Gardner, Visiting Scholar
Diane Gionfriddo, Research Assistant
Joy L. Hainley, Research Assistant
Judy L. Rasmussen, Senior Executive Assistant
Barbara C. Resch, Editor
Janie Mefford Shaklee, Evaluator
Lydia E. Walsh, Research Assistant

Videodiscovery, Inc. Development Team

D. Joseph Clark, Co-Principal Investigator
Shaun Taylor, Co-Project Director

Michael Bade, Multimedia Producer
Dave Christiansen, Animator
Greg Humes, Assistant Multimedia Producer
Lucy Flynn Zucotti, Photo Researcher

Advisory Committee

Ken Andrews, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Kenneth Bingman, Shawnee Mission West High School,
Shawnee Mission, Kansas
Julian Davies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
Lynn B. Jorde, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, Salt
Lake City, Utah
Elmer Kellmann, Parkway Central High School,
Chesterfield, Missouri
Mark A. Rothstein, University of Houston Law Center,
Houston, Texas
Carl W. Pierce, Consultant, Hermann, Missouri
Kelly A. Weiler, Garfield Heights High School, Garfield
Heights, Ohio
Raymond L. White, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake
City, Utah
Aimee L. Wonderlick, Northwestern University Medical
School, Chicago, Illinois

Writing Team

Mary Ann Cutter, University of Colorado—Colorado
Springs
Edward Drexler, Pius XI High School, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Robert Fineman, Washington State Department of Health,
Seattle, Washington
Jenny Sigstedt, Consultant, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

 

Artists

Dan Anderson
Kevin Andrews

Cover Design

Karen Cook, NIH Medical Arts and Photography Branch

Cover Illustration

Salvador Bru, Illustrator

Design and Layout

Angela Greenwalt, Finer Points Productions

BSCS Administrative Staff

Timothy H. Goldsmith, Chairman, Board of Directors
Joseph D. McInerney, Director
Michael J. Dougherty, Associate Director

Videodiscovery, Inc. Administrative Staff

D. Joseph Clark, President
Shaun Taylor, Vice President for Product Development

National Institutes of Health

Karina Boehm, National Human Genome Research Institute
Lisa Brooks, National Human Genome Research Institute
Bruce Fuchs, Office of Science Education
Barbara Fuller, National Human Genome Research Institute
Kathy Hudson, National Human Genome Research Institute
William Mowczko, Office of Science Education
Gloria Seelman, Office of Science Education

Field-Test Teachers

Todd Bennethum, Thunder Ridge High School, Highlands
Ranch, Colorado
Brenda Chenier, Eastern High School, Washington, DC
Birgit Musheno, Desert Vista High School, Phoenix, Arizona
Sandra Sundlof, Wheaton High School, Wheaton, Maryland
Patricia Zeck, Northwestern High School, Kokomo, Indiana

Photo Credits

Figure 1: Corel Corporation; Figure 3: Courtesy of
Sean O’Neill and Nexia Biotechnologies Inc.; Opening
photographs for activities: Videodiscovery, Inc.

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