Meet the Authors
Jayme Dyer, PhD
Dr. Jayme Dyer is a nationally-awarded biology instructor and science communicator. Dr. Dyer currently teaches as an adjunct instructor of biology at Durham Technical Community College (Durham Tech) in Durham, NC, where she has been teaching General Biology I and II for over six years. Before teaching at Durham Tech, Dr. Dyer taught at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and Earlham College in Richmond, IN.
Dr. Dyer also produces videos for her own science education YouTube channel, YouTooBio. Her short, engaging videos teach common laboratory techniques and biology concepts through compelling data-centered narratives. In 2022, Dr. Dyer was awarded two national teaching awards: The Innovation in Education Award from the American Society for Cell Biology, and the Professor Chan Two-Year College Award for the Engaged Teaching of Biology from the National Association of Biology Teachers. Dr. Dyer graduated with a BA in Biology from Carleton College and received her PhD in genetics and genomics from Duke University, followed by a NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship in biology studying bacterial cell cycle control at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gaël McGill, PhD
Dr. Gaël McGill is faculty and Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School, where his teaching and research focuses on visualization design and assessment methods in science education. He is the co-principal investigator for NSF’s Research Collaboration Network in Undergraduate Biology Education VISABLI. Dr. McGill is also founder and CEO of Digizyme, Inc., a firm dedicated to the visualization and communication of science, and whose team comprises scientist-artists with extensive experience developing digital pedagogy that is informed by the cognitive psychology of learning. He coauthored, with E.O. Wilson, Apple’s flagship digital textbook E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth, and is also an author for W. W. Norton’s Essential Cell Biology (7th ed.) and a contributing author for Molecular Biology of the Cell (8th ed.).
Dr. McGill currently also writes on issues of biodiversity loss and sustainable engineering as part of his work with the United Nations and is a board member of the Institute for Planetary Thinking. After his BA summa cum laude in biology, music, and art history from Swarthmore College, and PhD at Harvard Medical School as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals fellow, Dr. McGill completed his postdoctoral work at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute studying tumor cell apoptosis and melanoma.