Mark D. Drapeau, Ph.D.

Research Fellow, NDU

Dr. Mark D. Drapeau is the 2006-08 AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington DC. He is currently working on a variety of projects concerning the influence of life sciences on national security. Dr. Drapeau holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Rochester and the University of California – Irvine, respectively. He was then an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Developmental Genetics at New York University. His decade of academic biology research spanned ecology, animal behavior, evolutionary biology, aging, genetics, neuroscience, and genomics. He was involved most recently in the international honey bee genome project. These writings are the author's alone and do not reflect the official policy or position of any part of the Dept of Defense or the US Government.