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Dr. Hunter-Cevera has been a Director of the Company since June 2001. Dr. Hunter-Cevera is the President of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in October 1999, Dr. Hunter-Cevera had been the head of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between November 1994 and October 1999, Director of Fermentation, Research and Development at Cetus Corporation and a scientist at E.R. Squibb and Company. She was co-founder of The Biotic Network and Blue Sky Laboratories in Sonora, CA. Dr. Hunter-Cevera was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 1995, the recipient of the 1996 SIM Charles Porter Award, elected as a SIM Fellow in 1997 and the 1999 Nath Lecturer at West Virginia University. She is the 2004 recipient of the ASM Porter Award for achievement in biodiversity research. | 