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Dr. Martienssen is a member of the Board of Directors and a scientific co-founder of the Company. He is a Professor in plant genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and leads the plant biology group there. As well as developing strategies to exploit methylation in genome sequencing, Dr. Martienssen has also investigated the link between DNA methylation, histone methylation, and RNA interference in plants and yeast. His work, along with that of his colleagues, was awarded the "Breakthrough of the Year" by the journal, Science, in 2002. Dr. Martienssen was a co-recipient of the Kumho International Science Award in 2001 and was the 2003 recipient of the Newcomb Cleveland Award. Dr. Martienssen received his B.A. in Natural Sciences (Genetics) from Cambridge University, England and his Ph.D. from the Plant Breeding Institute and Cambridge University. He held an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley and has been on the faculty at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1989. Dr. Martienssen was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on May 18, 2006. | 