StarNet Project

Principal Investigator: Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator: Gail Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D.

Program Director: Maureen Munn, Ph.D.

Associate Director: Megan Brown, Ph.D.

Lead Teachers: Renee Agatsuma, Leslie White, Debbie Alan, Jamie Cooke

Research Curriculum Authors: Maureen Munn, Megan Brown, Kristi Martinez

Research Curriculum Teacher Contributors: Debbie Alan, Gertrude Booth, Connie Kelly, Nancy Mouat-Rich, Sharon Santucci, Lowell Thomson, MaryMargaret Welch

Ethics Curriculum Authors: Debbie Alan, Laura Bishop, Megan Brown, Jeanne Chowning, Elise Cooksley, Connie Kelly, Kristi Martinez, Kimberly Mullen, Maureen Munn, Lola Szobota, Lowell Thomson

Webmaster: Megan Brown

High School Human Genome Program

Principal Investigator: Maynard Olson, Ph.D.

Program Director: Maureen Munn, Ph.D.

Lead Teachers: Peggy Skinner, Barbara Schulz, Bonnie dos
Remedios, Patrick Ehrman, Sharon Masse, Janet Bowersox,
Edward Hopfner

Research Collaborators: Eric Lynch and Mary-Claire King (DFNA1 Project); Carl Ton (Nicotine Receptor Project)

Development of Sequencing Module: Maureen Munn and lead
teachers

Development of Ethics Module: Sharon Durfy and Robert
Hansen

Illustrations: Cindy Desmarais and Justin Miller

Web Site Design: Cindy Desmarais

Funding
We would like to thank the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for their generous support of these programs.  From 1994-1999, the High School Human Genome Program was funded by the Department of Energy.

Thank you to the University of Washington Genome Center and the UW Department of Genome Sciences for providing laboratory and office space for this project. and for his ongoing intellectual and technical support of project activities.
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