Barry Starr - Profile

D. Barry Starr, Russ Morris

After working as a researcher for a number of years in the biotech industry, I landed a job with Stanford University working at The Tech Museum of Innovation ("The Tech). At The Tech, I helped design the current Genetics exhibit, Genetics: Technology With a Twist, and run their online exhibit, Understanding Genetics.

Part of my job is to answer people's genetics questions online at the "Ask a Geneticist" section of the Understanding Genetics website. It is here that I learned how much I enjoy writing about science and helping to make tough genetics concepts clearer.

I got my Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Oregon in 1993 and did my postdoctoral research at UCSF.