Lynne E. Maquat Ph.D, is Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. She has studied nonsense-mediated mRNA decay since 1980, beginning with characterizations of patients having the hemolytic anemias ߰-thalassemia and triosephosphate isomerase deficiency. She is currently President of the RNA Society and member of the Public Information Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology.