Michael Dickinson (biologist)

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Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly

bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist.[3]

Early life and education

Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware in 1963 but grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia.[4] He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989.[5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen.[6]

Career and Research

He was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1991,[7] before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.[8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014.[9][6] He is now back at Caltech.

He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology.[10] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[11]

Awards

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Michael H. Dickinson - www.bbe.caltech.edu". www.bbe.caltech.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  2. ^ "Dickinson Lab". dickinsonlab.caltech.edu.
  3. ^ "Fly Guy". The Scientist Magazine®.
  4. ^ "627: Dr. Michael Dickinson: Sorting Out the Science of Fruit Fly Flight and Behavior". People Behind the Science Podcast. 18 October 2021.
  5. ^ "ICB | People". Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  6. ^ a b Gorman, James (7 October 2013). "Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "How flies fly - UChicago Medicine". www.uchospitals.edu.
  8. ^ "Science Blog -- Michael Dickinson Named MacArthur Fellow". www.scienceblog.com.
  9. ^ "Michael Dickinson | tedxcaltech.com". www.tedxcaltech.com.
  10. ^ "Editor biographies". Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
  11. ^ "NS&B History - Neural Systems and Behavior @ MBL". sites.google.com.
  12. ^ "Michael Dickinson Named MacArthur Fellow". berkeley.edu.
  13. ^ "Two Faculty Members Join American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Caltech". 30 April 2008.

External links

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