Dr. Ken Krauter is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked in Molecular Biology and Genetics for over 30 years, first on the Faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and for the last 14 years as a Professor in MCDB in Boulder. His Ph.D. was obtained at Einstein and carried out postdoctoral work at The Rockefeller University in New York working mostly in the area of gene regulation, cloning and carcinogenesis. At Albert Einstein, he became a participant in the initial stages of the Human Genome Project as a PI in one of the first human chromosome genome centers in the early 1990s focused on generating the complete sequence of the human genome. In the process, he is a co-author on numerous papers describing the integrated physical and genetic mapping of many human genes. In Colorado, he became a founding member of the Center for Adolescent Drug Dependence: Genetics that is focused on identifying genes associated with substance dependence using complex trait genetics approaches. Dr. Krauter is currently a National Academies Fellow in Science Education and is part of the University of Colorado’s Science Education Initiative that is a multimillion-dollar program headed by Dr. Carl Weiman to improve science teaching through the application of scientific principles.