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John Sterling, Editor in Chief —
John Sterling joined Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News as an assistant editor in 1984 and became editor-in-chief in 1989. He holds a B.S. in biology from CCNY and a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Minnesota. John also was a graduate student at Hunter College where he majored in biological anthropology, focusing on the morphological and genetic aspects of human evolution.

He is an active member of the National Association of Science Writers and has received journalism fellowships from the University of Minnesota, the University of Maryland, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech University. He has been a speaker or moderator at numerous biotech conferences in the U.S. and Europe and serves on a panel for Business Wire's “Biotech Meets the Media” series of seminars held throughout the year at various cities in the U.S.

John is a former intercollegiate ice hockey player at CCNY and still lives and dies with the New York Rangers.

Tamlyn Oliver, Managing Editor —
Tamlyn has been an editor at GEN since 1998. She has a degree in biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and was previously managing editor of the Journal of Soil Contamination and publication coordinator at Amherst Scientific Publishers.

Tamlyn is an avid runner who has won a number of regional races.

Robert M. Reis, Production Editor —
Rob has been involved with trade publishing for more than 20 years. Having previously worked in the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishing medical journal production department and as production editor for the company's Natural Pharmacy magazine, Rob has been with GEN since mid-2001.

In addition to his BA in journalism from New York University, with a specialty in magazine production and editing, Rob is also a published writer and photographer.

Querida Anderson, Online Managing Editor —
Querida, joined GEN in September 2005. She has a B.S. in physics and a masters in science and environmental reporting. She is a published science writer, has produced science news stories for ABC and NBC, and has worked on a documentary for the Discovery Channel about space telescopes and probes.

Querida also enjoys photography and loves to travel.

Carol Costa, Senior Copy Editor —
Carol started at Mary Ann Liebert more than 6 years ago as a freelance writer, took over management of the GEN Biotechnology Database, and is now working as an editor on GEN. She has worked as a freelance editor for many of the major publishing houses in NYC for the past 30 years. She is also the author of several books and magazine articles.

Carol is also an artist and works in oils and watercolor.

Laura Mickowski, Technical Editor —
With a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Laura began her career as a high school biology teacher. She moved on to become Assistant Editor at a medical education company before joining the GEN team in May, 2009.

She enjoys biking, arts and crafts, creative writing, and playing the piano.

Sophia Fox, European Editor —
Sophia Fox first started writing for GEN in 1993, and has been European Editor since 2003. She has a bachelors of science in zoology, and a prior to starting with GEN, spent some time involved in human molecular genetics research, as well as writing for a number of international biotech and pharma publications and national U.K. media. Based in the U.K., Sophia spends her spare time looking after her young family and a somewhat diverse menagerie, which currently includes horses, sheep, dogs, snakes, and a very loud Siamese cat.

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