
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2011
It's not that easy being green, but many would like to be.
Marcelo Vinces earned his PhD in Molecular Microbiology from Tufts University in Boston studying a disease-causing yeast, and then went on to Harvard University and KU Leuven in Belgium to do research on rapidly evolving repetitive DNAs called "tandem repeats". He is currently a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation. In his free time, Marcelo writes on science and society from a personal perspective in his blog, Soscience.