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    Michael Dickinson (biologist)

    Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly


    bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Michael Dickinson
    Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute Born Michael H. Dickinson
    of Technology.[1][2] He studies Drosophila flight 1963 (age 60–61)
    control systems and sensory processing and was Seaford, Delaware, U.S.
    dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist.[3] Education Brown University (BS)
    University of Washington (PhD)
    Occupation Biologist
    Early life and education Awards Larry Sandler Memorial Award
    (1990)
    Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware, in 1963 but
    grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia.[4] Scientific career
    He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in Fields
    Biological engineering
    1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D.
    Neuroscience
    in 1989.[5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl
    Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen.[6]

    Career and Research


    He was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1991,[7] before moving to the University of
    California, Berkeley, in 1996.[8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before
    moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014.[9][6] He is now back at Caltech.

    He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology.[10] He was a course director of the
    Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[11]

    Awards
    1990 Larry Sandler Memorial Award
    2001 MacArthur Fellows Program[12]
    2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences[13]

    Sources
    "Micro Warfare" (https://books.google.com/books?id=R9MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62), Popular
    Mechanics, Feb 2001
    "Flyorama" (https://books.google.com/books?id=0BvVSP2ugU4C&pg=PA28), Popular
    Science, Dec 2002

    References
    1. "Michael H. Dickinson - www.bbe.caltech.edu" (https://web.archive.org/web/2018090201030
    6/http://www.bbe.caltech.edu/content/michael-h-dickinson). www.bbe.caltech.edu. Archived
    from the original (http://www.bbe.caltech.edu/content/michael-h-dickinson) on 2018-09-02.
    Retrieved 2015-07-17.
    2. "Dickinson Lab" (http://dickinsonlab.caltech.edu/). dickinsonlab.caltech.edu.
    3. "Fly Guy" (https://www.the-scientist.com/profile/fly-guy-40668). The Scientist Magazine®.
    4. "627: Dr. Michael Dickinson: Sorting Out the Science of Fruit Fly Flight and Behavior" (http
    s://www.peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-michael-dickinson-2/). People Behind the Science
    Podcast. 18 October 2021.
    5. "ICB | People" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100625183723/http://www.icb.ucsb.edu/peopl
    e/researchers_profile.php?ResearcherID=32). Archived from the original (http://www.icb.ucs
    b.edu/people/researchers_profile.php?ResearcherID=32) on 2010-06-25. Retrieved
    2010-04-19.
    6. Gorman, James (7 October 2013). "Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight" (https://w
    ww.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/science/focusing-on-fruit-flies-curiosity-takes-flight.html). The
    New York Times.
    7. "How flies fly - UChicago Medicine" (http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/1995/19950000-how-f
    lies-fly.html). www.uchospitals.edu.
    8. "Science Blog -- Michael Dickinson Named MacArthur Fellow" (http://www.scienceblog.com/
    community/older/archives/G/ucb773.html). www.scienceblog.com.
    9. "Michael Dickinson | tedxcaltech.com" (http://www.tedxcaltech.com/content/michael-dickinso
    n.html). www.tedxcaltech.com.
    10. "Editor biographies" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150815234114/http://jeb.biologists.org/s
    ite/about/editor_bios.xhtml). Archived from the original (http://jeb.biologists.org/site/about/edi
    tor_bios.xhtml) on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
    11. "NS&B History - Neural Systems and Behavior @ MBL" (https://sites.google.com/site/nsbmb
    l/ns-b-history). sites.google.com.
    12. "Michael Dickinson Named MacArthur Fellow" (http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/200
    1/10/24_macarthur.html). berkeley.edu.
    13. "Two Faculty Members Join American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Caltech" (https://ww
    w.caltech.edu/news/two-faculty-members-join-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-1420).
    30 April 2008.

    External links
    "Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight" (http://nyti.ms/1BdXFAO), New York Times
    "Flies In Danger Escape With Safety Dance" (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
    storyId=94070264), NPR, Joe Palca
    "Fly Flight Simulators" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100117113237/http://sciencentral.co
    m/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218393116), ScienCentral
    "Michael H. Dickson" (http://en.scientificcommons.org/michael_h_dickinson), Scientific
    Commons
    "How a fly flies" (https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_dickinson_how_a_fly_flies#t-21915)
    (TED conference)
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