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Dr. David Stern, President and Full Scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, and Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology at Cornell University. Dr. Stern is a leading researcher on nuclear regulation of plant organelle genes. He studies chloroplast gene regulation in Chlamydomonas, Arabidopsis, and maize using a variety of approaches. He joined the Boyce Thompson Institute faculty as an assistant scientist in 1989, after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at University of California-Berkeley and earning a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Stanford University in 1986. Prior to that he received a masters degree in biochemistry at Cambridge University. Dr. Stern is the author or co-author of more than 95 scientific publications and has served as an editor at the journals Plant Cell and Plant Molecular Biology. He is currently an editor for Current Genetics, and is a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. | 