Faculty
Faculty for the Citizen Science program were selected for their strong teaching and research backgrounds, and their excitement about working in this unique, immersive, and supportive teaching environment.
Faculty Features
The faculty members listed below participated in Citizen Science 2013!
Terry Fang
Terry received her B.A. in Biology from New York University and her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis work focused on T cell responses involved in parasitic infections.
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She is currently a research associate at The Rockefeller University where she is investigating the role of epigenetics in host response to infection and development of the immune system. Her work involves using genome-wide deep sequencing to generate maps of epigenetic modifications. She is funded by the Irvington Fellowship of the Cancer Research Institute.
Terry looks forward to returning for another year of Citizen Science.
James Martiney
James Martiney received his Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the area of Experimental Pathology. His research interest for close to a decade was malaria and the immunology of parasitic diseases. After realizing that he will never be able to play third base for the NY Mets, he switched to a teaching position in a liberal arts university.
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Teaching experience includes all sorts of infectious disease courses (microbiology, immunology, parasitology), general biology, biology for non-majors, and bioethics. A member of the United States Navy Reserves with a specialty in biological warfare, he was called to active duty in 2003 during the War on Terror.
He currently teaches at Sacred Heart University, Iona College and Barnard College and works as a biosecurity consultant. In addition, the combination of scholarly academic research in infectious diseases and practical military experience in biological warfare makes him uniquely suitable to save humanity in case of a Zombie Apocalypse.
Joshua Payne
Joshua is currently an NSF International Research Fellow in the Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich. He earned his B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Regis University, his M.Eng. in Applied Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.
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He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Computational Genetics group at Dartmouth and has participated in summer programs at the Santa Fe Institute and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
His research is focused on computational modeling of biological systems, with applications ranging from dispersal evolution to the dissemination of social contagion. Most recently, he has been working on models of genetic control.
Marcienne Wright
Dr. Marcienne (Marci) Wright earned a B.A. in Biology from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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She is a 2012-2013 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow and supports the biosafety and biosecurity policy mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Prior to joining HHS, Marci completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program at the National Institutes of Health, where she provided biosafety support for high containment biomedical research laboratories.
She has published multiple original research papers, including manuscripts in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Biochemical Journal. During her graduate studies Marci performed gene expression profiling of the vascular protein heme oxygenase-1, work for which she was awarded an institutional NIH National Research Service Award and a United Negro College Fund – Merck Science Initiative Graduate Dissertation Fellowship. Her civic engagement activities include science education outreach at the college and high school levels and science education policy initiatives at the institutional and national levels.
