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Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell award for best science fiction novel: ''The Highest Frontier'' (2012) and ''A Door into Ocean'' (1987). With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, ''Microbiology: An Evolving Science'' (W. W. Norton). She explores her ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at her blog (Ultraphyte ). ==Biography== Slonczewski was born in 1956 at Hyde Park, New York and raised in Katonah, New York. She earned an A.B. in biology, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. She completed a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1982 and post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania studying calcium flux in leukocyte chemotaxis. Since 1984 she has taught at Kenyon College, taking sabbatical leaves at Princeton University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Slonczewski's research focuses on the pH (environmental) stress response in ''Escherichia coli'' and ''Bacillus subtilis'' using genetic techniques. Slonczewski teaches both biology and science fiction courses. From 1996 through 2008, she has been awarded Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding for undergraduate biological sciences education, which she uses to improve science instruction and to foster summer science fellowships for minority and first-generation students. She was the Hal Clement Science Speaker in February 2011 at the Boskone 48 convention. Slonczewski is also a member of the Quakers and Quakerism is featured in many of her novels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Slonczewski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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