Biographical Sketches

Biographical Sketches of Participants

CHRISTOPHER ASPLEN (J.D.) is the executive director of the National Committee on the Future of DNA Evidence. The purpose of the Committee is to provide the U.S. Attorney General with recommendations on the use of current and future DNA methods, applications, and technologies in the operation of the criminal justice system, from the crime scene to the courtroom. His writings include "From crime scene to courtroom: Integrating DNA technology into the criminal justice system" in Judicature.

WALTER M. BORTZ III (Ph.D.), the twenty-third president of Hampden-Sydney College, has over three decades of higher education administration experience at both public and independent institutions. He was graduated from Bethany College in West Virginia with a degree in biology and earned a doctorate in education policy studies from The George Washington University. After appointments at Bethany College and Texas Christian University, Dr. Bortz became vice president for Institutional Advancement at The University of Hartford in 1985. Four years later, he became vice president at The George Washington University, a position he held until coming to Hampden-Sydney College in 2000.

RONALD COLE-TURNER (Ph.D., M.Div.) is H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. His most recent research focuses on several key fronts in the new genetics-including gene therapy, cloning, and work on stem cells-and his teaching, supported by the John Templeton Foundation, seeks to integrate developments in science and technology into core theological themes. Dr. Cole-Turner has an accomplished record of service, including his ongoing work with the Templeton Foundation, Science and Spirit Magazine, and the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, a working group within the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

ANDRÉ M. DAVIS (J.D.) was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland by President Clinton in 1995. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland School of Law, Judge Davis served as a law clerk for Judge Francis Murnaghan of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit from 1979 to 1980. Before joining the federal bench, he held positions with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. His career has included judicial appointments to district and circuit courts in the state of Maryland.

MICHAEL J. DOUGHERTY (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of Biology at Hampden-Sydney College. Before joining Hampden-Sydney, he was associate/acting director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, a national nonprofit science-education organization. His scholarly interests include the development of innovative biology and genetics curricula, public science literacy, and the controlled folding of novel proteins produced through genetic engineering. He is co-teaching the course allied with this symposium.

DANIEL DRELL (Ph.D.) is a biologist in the Life Sciences Division of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy. An immunologist by training, he earned biology degrees from Harvard and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and serves as the Program Manager for the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Program of the Human Genome Project. In addition, Dr. Drell manages several other DOE biology programs, including Human Genome Informatics, Microbial Genome and Microbial Cell Programs, and several projects to study the science and societal implications of bioremediation.

DEAN HAMER (Ph.D.), Chief of the Section on Gene Structure and Regulation in the Laboratory of Biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute, has made major contributions to research in a variety of areas, including recombinant DNA, drug and vaccine production, and gene regulation. His discovery of genetic links to sexual orientation and to personality traits such as anxiety and thrill-seeking has changed the way we think about human behavior. The author of over 100 scientific papers, Dr. Hamer has also co-authored two widely-read books, The Science of Desire and Living With Our Genes.

NEIL A. HOLTZMAN (M.D., M.P.H.) is Director of Genetics and Public Policy Studies at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. His recent research, supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Human Genome Research Institute, includes studies on physicians' knowledge of developments in the field of genetics and women's and providers' attitudes towards testing for genetic susceptibility to breast cancer. He was co-editor of The Institute of Medicine's report Assessing Genetic Risks and of Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in the United States, the final report of the Task Force on Genetic Testing.

JAMES D. JANOWSKI (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampden-Sydney College. His central research and teaching interests are in value theory and philosophical ethics, both theoretical and applied. Dr. Janowski is interested both in a basic question at the foundation of the new genetics-How are we to understand human nature?-and in the issues of justice and discrimination that the genome project raises. In summer 2000, he participated in "Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project," a National Institutes of Health-sponsored Faculty Summer Institute at Dartmouth College; at Hampden-Sydney College he is co-teaching the course allied to this symposium.

ERIC JUENGST (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His research and publications have focused on the conceptual and ethical issues raised by advances in human genetics and biotechnology. Currently, Dr. Juengst is the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health-funded project anticipating the social policy issues that will be raised by the availability of genetic enhancement techniques; he also serves on both the DNA Advisory Board of the FBI and the U.S. Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. He was the first Chief of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Branch of the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Human Genome Research.

ANTHONY R. KERLAVAGE (Ph.D.) is Senior Director for Product Strategy at Celera Genomics. He was a founding scientist and Director of Bioinformatics at The Institute for Genomic Research. Dr. Kerlavage has led efforts in the integration of software tools and databases for large-scale DNA sequencing projects, from laboratory information systems to research databases. He has pursued research in protein structure prediction and molecular evolution. Before taking his current position, he served for seven years in the Section of Receptor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (National Institutes of Health). He is the founding chair of the Annual Conference on Computational Genomics.

ANNE C. LUND (Ph.D.) is Professor of Biology and Chair of the Health Sciences Advisory Committee at Hampden-Sydney. She holds an M.S. degree in biology, speciality in cytogenetics, and a doctorate in biology, with an emphasis in plant systematics, both from Emory University. She regularly teaches courses in biology, botany, microbiology, and immunology, and assists students in research in both microbiology and immunology. With colleagues in the department of religion, she has taught courses entitled "Ethical Issues in Human Biology" (with Dr. Owen Norment) and "Ethics Meets 21st Century Biology" (with the Rev. Dr. William Thompson).

DAVID E. MARION (Ph.D.) is Director of the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest and Elliott Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College. He held an appointment as a visiting professor in the graduate program in public administration at the University of Virginia between 1981 and 1996. Dr. Marion is on the academic advisory board of the Bill of Rights Institute. He is the author of The Jurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: The Law and Politics of 'Libertarian Dignity,' among other publications that bridge law, administration, and American political thought.

JOSEPH McINERNEY (M.A., M.S.) has been involved in genetics education and counseling for 25 years and currently is the executive director of the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics and chairman of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) education grant review subcommittee for the National Human Genome Research Institute. He is a former president of the National Association of Biology Teachers, and in 1996 he was elected a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His scholarly interests focus on medical genetics and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic research.

ROBERT F. MURRAY, JR. (M.D., M.S.) is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at Howard University's College of Medicine, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Human Genetics in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, he has published extensively and served on several boards relating to issues in medical genetics and bioethics. Dr. Murray is an expert on genetic screening and counseling and on the social issues of inherited human disorders, especially with regard to race. He has studied both the medical and bioethical implications of diagnosis and treatment of many human genetic diseases.

SARAH TISHKOFF (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland. She holds degrees in anthropology and genetics from the University of California at Berkeley and Yale, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State. Dr. Tishkoff has received several major grants and published numerous scientific papers on human genetics and evolution. Her research involves study of genetic variation among modern humans and non-human primates in order to understand the evolutionary forces-and genetic ills-that shape these species. Specifically, she has examined the genetic diversity of human populations in several African nations to reconstruct the demographic history and relationships of these populations, and to screen and map many genetically-based diseases.

ALEXANDER J. WERTH (Ph.D.) is Elliott Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Honors Program at Hampden-Sydney. He holds degrees in evolutionary zoology from Duke and Harvard and conducts research on the morphology of whales and other marine mammals. In addition to his regular courses in anatomy, physiology, and evolution, Dr. Werth has also taught courses in-and presented conference papers on-bioethics, the philosophy of science, and the nature of scientific knowledge. He has attended National Institutes of Health workshops on gene therapy and (with Professor Janowski) the Human Genome Project, and he organized the Hampden-Sydney human genome course that accompanies this symposium.

SAMUEL V. WILSON (Lt. Gen., U.S. Army, ret.), President Emeritus of Hampden-Sydney College and Wheat Professor of Leadership, is considered an expert on foreign affairs, national intelligence, and other topics relating to Viet Nam and the Soviet Union. He has served as a consultant to numerous government bodies and is author of over 250 papers, studies, intelligence estimates, monographs, and theses. He is the recipient of numerous awards that attest to his remarkable career, the most recent being the William Oliver Baker Award (the "Heisman Trophy" of the U.S. Intelligence community) for ". . . enduring contributions to National Security and Freedom."

FRANKLIN ZWEIG (Ph.D., J.D.) is the president of the Einstein Institute for Science, Health, and the Courts, a technical assistance consortium providing the judicial branch with knowledge tools. He has served as counsel for the Committee on Labor and Human Resources for the U.S. Senate, visiting scholar in the Office of Technology Assessment, and dean and professor of policy sciences at the State University of New York. His writings include articles and books dealing with genetic technologies and their applications in the courtroom, including Evaluation in Legislation.