Gary Miner

Dr. Gary Miner received a B.S. from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, with Biology, Chemistry, and Education majors; an M.S. in Zoology and Population Genetics from the University of Wyoming; and a Ph.D. in biochemical genetics from the University of Kansas as the recipient of a NASA predoctoral fellowship. During the doctoral study years, he also studied mammalian genetics at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, under a College Training Program on an NIH award; another College Training Program at the Bermuda Biological Station, St. George’s West, Bermuda, in a Marine Developmental Embryology course, on an NSF award; and a third College Training Program held at the University of California, San Diego, at the Molecular Techniques in Developmental Biology Institute, again on an NSF award. Following that he studied as a postdoctoral student at the University of Minnesota in behavioral genetics, where, along with research in schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease, he learned what was involved in writing books from assisting in editing two book manuscripts of his mentor Irving Gottesman, Ph.D.