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Michael Dickinson (biologist)

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Name
  
Michael Dickinson

Role
  
Professor

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship



Education
  
Brown University, University of Washington

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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. He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing.

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He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989. He was previously part of the faculty at the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington.

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

Awards

  • 1990 Larry Sandler Memorial Award
  • 2001 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • References

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