Five Moore Foundation grantees elected to National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences recently announced newly elected members and foreign associates. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership based on their outstanding contributions to research. Five of the 84 new members are Moore Foundation grantees:

• Dominique Bergmann, professor of biology in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. Read more about Dr. Bergmann’s work in “How plants learned to breathe” and the Bergmann Lab here.  
• Craig S. Pikaard, professor of biology and molecular and cellular biochemistry in the Department of Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Learn more about Dr. Pikaard’s work in “Gene silencing instructions acquired through ‘molecular memory’ tags on chromatin”.
• John Pringle, professor of genetics in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Watch this video on the work of Dr. Pringle and his colleagues to understand how corals resist stress. Read more about the Pringle Lab here.
• James T. Randerson, professor of earth system science in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. Read more about Dr. Randerson’s work in “2016 Amazon Fire Forecast”.
• John E. Vidale, professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. Learn about Dr. Vidale’s work in detecting earthquakes in “Earthquake-early warning system performs well in advance detection”.  

The National Academy of Sciences established in 1863 by an Act of Congress, signed by President Lincoln, as a private, nongovernmental institution to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. Learn more here.

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