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DR. DANIEL DEWITT BROWN
Daniel Dewitt Brown, B.A., Ph.D. is a developmental biologist
studying
brain development at the National institute of Environmental Health
Science (NIEHS).
As a National Science Foundation Graduate
Research
Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Daniel spent
his
graduate years studying the role of specific transcription factors in
regulating heart development.
He has since moved on to
post-doctoral
work as an Intramural Research Training Award Fellow at the NIEHS, where
he is studying the role of a specific protein in regulating brain
development. He is also an adjunct lecturer in Biology at Elon
University.
Daniel has many primary research articles published in the scientific
literature concerning his findings in developmental biology. He was
awarded the 2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship, the 2006 UNC Dissertation Fellowship, the 2006 UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Graduate Fellow Award, 2007
Intramural Research Training Award at the NIEHS, and the 2000 Spessard
Award in Biology from Hendrix College, and he has received several
awards for presentations of his scientific research.
In addition to his research and teaching interests, he is also an avid
blogger and author, spending much time writing on the potential future
outcomes of science, the place of science in our modern world, the
philosophical underpinnings of scientific endeavors, and the necessity
of logic and empiricism in free-thinking enlightened
society.
Daniel authored
23
Things Science Can Tell Us about Life, the Universe, and Everything,
Building a Better Human,
Flying Spaghetti Monster,
The Second Coming,
Will Tequila Plants Fuel Our Vehicles?,
Science Takes Another Step Toward Understanding Human
Evolution,
Camp Inquiry on NPR,
Amazing Cells in a Dish,
Science Discovers a New Sense,
Spiders and Insects Around the House,
Alfonso and the Sandwich-Making Robin,
The End of Evolution? (Yes and No - Mostly
No),
Science: the Death of God or Corroborative Evidence for
Him?,
Science as Dr. Frankenstein, and
Determinism.
He recently finished writing his first science-fiction novel about a
young girl and her brother who suddenly find themselves immersed in a
Universe teeming with alien intelligence. He hopes to have it published
shortly. In his spare time, he is currently working on a couple of other
novels, as well as continuing his interest in 3D computer-generated
animation and the digital arts. Read his
blog.
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