Bob Goldstein

Bob Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. He did postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and as a Miller Institute Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1999, he joined the faculty of the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research group combines classical cell manipulations with a variety of modern methods in C. elegans to explore basic mechanisms in cell and developmental biology. His group is also developing water bears as a new animal model for studying the evolution of such mechanisms. Goldstein serves on the editorial boards of Development, Developmental Dynamics, Molecular Biology of the Cell and BMC Developmental Biology. He received a Pew Scholars Award in 2000, a March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Scholars Award in 2000, a Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement in 2005, and he was named a Visiting Fellow and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007.