Richard Behringer is currently the Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He received his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of South Carolina and then pursued postdoctoral training as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow with Dr. Ralph Brinster in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and then with Dr. Richard Palmiter at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is one of the editors of the 3^rd Edition of the Manipulating the Mouse Embryo: A Laboratory Manual and co-wrote with Dr. Virginia Papaioannou the book Mouse Phenotypes: A Handbook of Mutation Analysis both published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He and Dr. Terry Magnuson share the editorship of the Wiley-Blackwell journal genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development. The Behringer lab is particularly interested in the embryology of diverse mammals, including marsupials, bats, and cetaceans.