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Megan T. Brown, Ph.D.
The GENETICS Project
Senior Science Education Associate & Webmaster
mtbrown@u.washington.edu

I have a B.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Genetics and have gone to school in Washington, California, and Switzerland. My dissertation was on yeast genetics and focused on the behavior of chromosomes during cell division. I did a postdoc at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, studying mechanisms of carcinogenesis in mammalian cells, and I've also worked at a biotech company as a technical writer and editor in the Marketing department.

I've always been interested in communicating science to the public, and became involved in K-12 education outreach by volunteering at the Science Education Partnership at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1997, I served as the science writer for the Genetics Education Partnership, a one year Eisenhower funded professional development program for K-12 teachers that was organized by Education Outreach of the the UW's Department of Molecular Biotechnology. I began working part-time at the UW when the GENETICS Project began in Fall of 1999 and have now expanded my efforts to include working as the webmaster for the High School Human Genome Program. I also work part-time as a freelance science writer and like to write about cancer, medicine, and science careers for both print and web media.