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Dr. Rothman earned his B.S. from the University of California, Davis in 1978 and was Winemaster at Buena Vista Winery, Sonoma until 1983. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1988. As a Helen Hay Whitney fellow and an EMBO fellow at the Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England, he initiated genetic studies of embryonic development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; these studies continue to be a major focus of his laboratory. He was a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1991-96 and moved to UCSB in 1996 to return to his native California. He is also a member of the Neuroscience Research Institute (link is external) and the Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering Program (link is external). He is the recipient of a Searle Scholars Award (link is external), and a Shaw Scientists Award and serves on the editorial board of the journal Developmental Biology (link is external), the journal Current Biology (link is external), and the journal Developmental Dynamics (link is external). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara (link is external) and a member of the International C. elegans Meeting Organizing Committee (link is external). From 2001-06, he was Co-director of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory Embryology Course (link is external) and has also served as the Chair of the NIH Molecular Genetics B (MGB) Study Section (link is external), as a member of the Faculty of 1000 (link is external), and on the editorial board of the journal Apoptosis (link is external).