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He was the husband of Susan M. Natali.
After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in biology, he completed his PhD at Arizona State University and spent the first 10 years of his career as a professor of biology and environmental studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
He continued his work in climate research and education in the Polaris Project at Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole, and the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. He managed the ecosystem studies and long-term ecological research programs during his time in the Division of Environmental Biology at the NSF.
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Scientists look for ways evolution fights disease-causing pathogens
Researchers are looking at opossums for immunological solutions to human diseases.
April 7, 2021
Scientists have examined the immune system of an unusual group of mammals, which includes a small South American opossum, to find solutions that evolution has produced to fight disease-causing pathogens.
In a paper in the journal
Science, an international team of researchers at the University of New Mexico, Monash University in Australia and the U.S. National Institutes of Health has defined a novel T cell lineage, called γµ T cells, found only in marsupials, such as kangaroos and opossums, and monotremes such as the duckbill platypus.
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