People at the Biologic Institute
Posted On Saturday, April 19, 2008 at at 10:33 PM by SPARCThe Biologic Institute displays nine names under People on their web pages. These are:
Douglas Axe
Lisanne D’Andrea-Winslow
Brendan Dixon
Ann Gauger
Guillermo Gonzalez
David Keller
Philip Lu
Robert J. Marks II
Richard von Sternberg
Interesting. Three of the EXPELLED (Gonzalez, Marks, von Sternberg) .
Also interesting, the site states only three of them (Axe, Dixon, Gauger) are actually working at the BI. It seems likely that Philip Lu is working there as well because no other affiliation is indicated for him. The remaining people are working at other institutions:
Lisanne D’Andrea-Winslow is a professor of biology at Northwestern College.Thus, one wonders how many of them are actually doing lab work. Dixon allegedly does bioinformatics. Thus, only Axe, Gauger and Lu could do wet biology. Gauger actually reported on on the Wistar Retrospective Symposium held from June 3 through June 7, 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts. As reported by Daniel Brooks, "...she discussed “leaky growth,” in microbial colonies at high densities, leading to horizontal transfer of genetic information, and announced that under such conditions she had actually found a novel variant that seemed to lead to enhanced colony growth. Gunther Wagner said, “So, a beneficial mutation happened right in your lab?” at which point the moderator halted questioning."(unfortunately Pandasthumb is down in the momment. Otherwise I would have provided the original link).
Guillermo Gonzalez is an assistant professor of astronomy at Iowa State University, soon to become an associate professor of astronomy at Grove City College in the Department of Physics.
David Keller is an associate professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico.
Robert J. Marks II is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Baylor University.
Richard von Sternberg is a research collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History.
What's really funny is that Brendan Dixon
joined Biologic Institute in 2006 to design and build the software for a state-of-the-art biological simulation system. He received a BS in business administration/information systems from Oregon State, and has worked for Microsoft, IBM, Apple, and Crossgain. Among his many roles at Microsoft, he was an architect and lead developer on the CSS–X/HTML layout engine introduced in Internet Explorer 4. In version 5 he continued his role as architect and developer, focusing on performance, flexibility and high-speed display technology. He has three patents pending.Why then did it take until mid April 2008 to get the BI's web pages running?
Maybe because he has other duties. According to wikipedia
Dixon is the president and sole employee of the Lifeworks Foundation, which in 2006 made $700,000 in donations to the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and of $30,000 to Baylor University for one of its engineering professors, Robert J. Marks II, to employ intelligent design proponent William Dembski as a postdoctoral researcher within the Evolutionary Informatics Lab he was formingSo Dixon was hired by the same institution to which he donated $700,000? Weired.
Update (April, 25):
According to Doc Bill
The [BI] domain was registered in February, 2005.Thus; it took them three years before they got their blog running. They indeed should have asked the Canadian Toronto based "journalist" for some help.