Daniel Evanko Chief Editor

Nature Methods Daniel Evanko is the chief editor of Nature Methods, a scientific research journal devoted to publishing and reporting on important advances in basic research techniques in the life sciences. He joined Nature Methods as a manuscript editor in 2004 and handled most of the microscopy-related research articles that appeared in the journal, and reported on microscopy developments published elsewhere before becoming chief editor in 2008. He also managed and edited special publishing projects devoted to microscopy techniques and tools. Prior to becoming an editor he made extensive use of fl uorescence microscopy for basic research in the life sciences.

Robert D. Goldman, Ph.D. Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Robert D. Goldman is the Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In his 30 years as department chair, Dr. Gold man has overseen the development of a department that consistently ranks in the top of its peer departments among the 126 U.S. medical schools. Additionally, Goldman is a highly regarded authority on the structure and function of the cytoskeleton, and has published over 240 scientific articles. His laboratory has done much of the basic research on both nuclear and cytoplasmic forms of intermediate filament proteins. Dr. Goldman’s work has earned him a number of honors and awards, including the prestigious Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar Award and a MERIT award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. He is presently the Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Whitman Research Center, located in Woods Hole, Mass.

Martha Harbison Senior Editor

Popular Science Martha Harbison is a senior editor at Popular Science magazine, where she edits feature stories and coordinates illustrations and infographics. Before her tenure at PopSci, she was a physical chemist, doing research in academic and industrial laboratories in the U.S. and Germany. Her primary research interests were molecular self-assembly and supramolecular architectures.