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David R. Soll, The University of Iowa, USA

David R. Soll is Professor of Biology at the University of Iowa. He attended the University of Wisconsin between 1960 and 1970, receiving a BA, MS and PhD. He then was a post-doctoral fellow at Brandeis University. In 1972 he joined the Department of Biology at the University of Iowa. In 1989 he was awarded the Roy J. and Lucille Carver/Emil Witschi Professorship of the Biological Sciences. In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2006 a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2009 he was awarded the Lucille K. George Medal from the International Society of Human and Animal Mycology.  He is best known for the computer-assisted analysis of cell motility, the discovery of phenotypic switching in Candida albicans , monoclonal antibody technologies, the molecular epidemiology and evolution of the hemiascomycetes and, most recently, the evolution of signal transduction pathways. He is currently director of the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank,  an NIH National Resource, the Monoclonal Antibody Research Institute, and the W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility. He has published over 350 articles.

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