Aaron F. Straight

Aaron F. Straight is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. Aaron Straight is one of a number of co-authors of a study that concludes that a genetic mutation is likely to be the driving force behind many human skin cancers.
Education and Training
Aaron earned his A.B. degree in Biology at Dartmouth University in 1989 with Kendall A. Smith as his research advisor, trained as a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at University of California, San Francisco under the guidance of Andrew W. Murray in 1998 and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Cell Biology with Timothy Mitchison as his advisor in 2003.
Elected memberships
*Member, American Society for Cell Biology (1998-present)
*Member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2011)
*Local Arrangements Chairperson (2005)
*Faculty, Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy (2000-2007)
*Advisory Committee, Montreal Light Microscopy Course(2012)
*Stanford University School of Medicine Cores Advisory Board (2013-present)
Awards
*Xerox Research Award (1988)
*Dartmouth College Senior Fellowship (1989)
*Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998)
*Stanford University Terman Fellow (2005)
Peer Review and Editorial Services
*External Reviewer, National Institute on Aging, NIH (2009)
*Member, Editorial Board, Nature Scientific Reports (2011)
Nature Publishing Group
*Ad Hoc Reviewer, NIH, Center for Scientific Review (2013)
*Reviewer, NIH, Center for Scientific Review (2014)
*Reviewer, NIH, Center for Scientific Review (2014)
*Academic Editor, Editorial Board, PLoS One (2015)
*Ad Hoc Reviewer, NIH, Center for Scientific Review (2015)
 
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