David C. Queller is an evolutionary biologist at
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
.
He received his BA from The University of Illinois in 1976, and his PhD from the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
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in 1982.
Queller became a faculty member at
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
in 1989 and remained there until 2011 when he was named
Spencer T. Olin
Spencer Truman Olin (August 20, 1900 – April 14, 1995) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was an executive of the Olin Corporation, founded in 1892 by his father, Franklin W. Olin, eventually serving as first vice president of ...
Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Since the late 1980s, Queller has collaborated extensively with his wife and colleague
Joan E. Strassmann. Empirically, Queller and Strassmann worked primarily with social insects until they made the switch to the social amoebae, ''
Dictyostelium discoideum'', in 1998.
Honors
*Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, 2004
*Fellow,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
, 2008
References
External links
David C. Queller Washington University WebsiteStrassmann / Queller Lab website
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Evolutionary biologists
University of Illinois alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Rice University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American biologists
21st-century American biologists
Washington University in St. Louis faculty