Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

David Gruber

Assistant Professor Biology and Environmental Science

Email: David.Gruber@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: (646) 660-6236
Website: http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/
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David Gruber completed a PhD in biological oceanography from the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences in 2007 and is currently an assistant professor of biology at the City University of New York, Baruch College. His research pertains to fluorescent proteins on coral reefs, and the multidisciplinary expedition to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef that he co-led recently resulted in the cloning of twenty-eight of the roughly 120 fluorescent proteins discovered from marine organisms. From 2007 to 2008, David was a postdoctoral fellow at the Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine, working to develop these fluorescent proteins into modulatable probes with neurobiological and medical applications. David is a member of the CUNY Macaulay Honors College, a visiting scientist at Brown University and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History and the Central Caribbean Marine Institute.

In addition, David is committed to communicating science to the general public. He serves as a scientific advisor and producer for WNYC Studio 360's "Science and Creativity" series and his writings have appeared in The New Yorker, Nature Medicine and The Best American Science Writing 2007. A former tropical forester for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, his research now utilizes Remote Operated Vehicles and extended-range SCUBA to examine marine natural products, fluorescent proteins and bioluminescence on coral reefs. He is the co-author of "Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence" (Harvard University Press, 2006) and he is currently co-producing the first 3-D IMAX film on bioluminescence in conjunction with the National Film Board of Canada. David holds master's degrees in coastal environmental management from Duke University and in science journalism from Columbia University.

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