2011 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）很自豪地宣布，布朗大学的凯西邓恩，在生态学和进化生物学系助理教授的选择，以获得其2011年艾伦T。沃特曼奖邓恩是一位进化生物学家，致力于研究生命的进化、发展和多样性，主要关注使用系统发育工具来理解基因、发育机制、形式、功能和进化之间的联系。 年度沃特曼奖旨在表彰NSF支持的任何科学或工程领域的杰出年轻研究人员。候选人不得超过35岁，或获得博士学位后7年，必须以个人成就脱颖而出。除了奖章外，获奖者还将在3年内获得50万美元的赠款，用于其领域的科学研究或高级研究。邓恩是一位杰出的进化生物学家，他在生物系统（特别是殖民生物）的功能特化和动物关系研究方面的工作最为人所知。他对生物遗传学和进化发育生物学做出了许多意想不到的原创性贡献，包括描述管水母复杂的群体水平发育。他对鲜为人知的生物体的研究是通过将野外和实验室研究与新颖的计算工具相结合来解决经典问题而实现的。邓恩与NSF有着长期的关系，获奖的历史更长。他获得了NSF研究生研究奖学金和博士论文改进补助金，以及流行技术科学和公共领导和Kavli Frontiers of Science的奖学金。他与哈佛大学、堪萨斯大学和蒙特雷湾水族馆研究所的同事一起，参与了美国国家科学基金会组装生命之树项目的一个大型资助项目，在该项目下，研究人员正在寻求用基因组学工具重建动物生命之树的历史。他的第一本书《生物学家的实用计算》于去年出版。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is proud to announce the selection of Brown University's Casey Dunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, to receive its 2011 Alan T. Waterman Award. Dunn, an evolutionary biologist, works on the evolution, development, and diversity of life, focusing primarily on the use of phylogenetic tools to understand the links between genes, developmental mechanisms, form, function, and evolution. The annual Waterman award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by NSF. Candidates may not be more than 35 years old, or seven years beyond receiving a doctorate, and must stand out for their individual achievements. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $500,000 over a 3-year period for scientific research or advanced study in their field. Dunn is a brilliant evolutionary biologist, and is most well known for his work on functional specialization in biological systems (particularly colonial organisms) and studies of animal relationships. He has made many unexpected and original contributions to phylogenetics and evolutionary developmental biology, including the description of complex colony-level development in siphonophores. His research with poorly known organisms is made possible by integrating field and laboratory research with novel computational tools to address classical questions. Dunn has a long relationship with NSF, and an even longer history receiving awards. He received a NSF graduate research fellowship and a doctoral dissertation improvement grant, as well as fellowships from Pop Tech Science and Public Leadership, and Kavli Frontiers of Science. With colleagues at Harvard, University of Kansas, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, he is part of a large grant project from NSF's Assembling the Tree of Life program, under which researchers are seeking to reconstruct, with phylogenomic tools, the history of the animal tree of life. His first book, Practical Computing for Biologists, was published last year.