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Nancy Moran was MacArthur Genius award winner in 1997 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004 based primarily on her work on the evolution of symbioses between microbes and insects, notably the aphid/buchnera symbiosis. She has become a leader in the use of genomic technologies to discover symbiont diversity, and more significantly, to reveal how microbial metabolic capabilities contribute to the functioning of hosts and biological communities. Dr. Moran is truly one of the most exciting contemporary evolutionary biologists.