Michael Dickinson (biologist)

Michael Dickinson
Born
Michael H. Dickinson

1963 (age 61–62)
Seaford, Delaware, U.S.
EducationBrown University (BS)
University of Washington (PhD)
OccupationBiologist
AwardsLarry Sandler Memorial Award (1990)
Scientific career
Fields

Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist.[3]

Early life and education

Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware, in 1963 but grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia.[4] He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989.[5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen.[6]

Career and Research

He was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1991,[7] before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996.[8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014.[9][6] He is now back at Caltech.

He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology.[10] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[11]

Awards

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Michael H. Dickinson - www.bbe.caltech.edu". www.bbe.caltech.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
  2. ^ "Dickinson Lab". dickinsonlab.caltech.edu.
  3. ^ "Fly Guy". The Scientist Magazine®.
  4. ^ "627: Dr. Michael Dickinson: Sorting Out the Science of Fruit Fly Flight and Behavior". People Behind the Science Podcast. 18 October 2021.
  5. ^ "ICB | People". Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  6. ^ a b Gorman, James (7 October 2013). "Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "How flies fly - UChicago Medicine". www.uchospitals.edu.
  8. ^ "Science Blog -- Michael Dickinson Named MacArthur Fellow". www.scienceblog.com.
  9. ^ "Michael Dickinson | tedxcaltech.com". www.tedxcaltech.com.
  10. ^ "Editor biographies". Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
  11. ^ "NS&B History - Neural Systems and Behavior @ MBL". sites.google.com.
  12. ^ "Michael Dickinson Named MacArthur Fellow". berkeley.edu.
  13. ^ "Two Faculty Members Join American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Caltech". 30 April 2008.