Dr. Mark Winey is a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He joined the department in 1991 as an Assistant Professor after post-doctoral studies at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1988. He has taught introductory genetics for 10 years, and has taught other introductory courses prior to that. His early research work was with baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. More recently his research group has also worked with human tissue culture cells and with the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila, which has rather odd genetics. Most recently, Dr. Winey spent a sabbatical year in the human genetics lab of Dr. Philip Beales at the Institute for Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Dr. Winey has been Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, he has held an American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Development Award, and a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.