Peter Follette, Ph.D.

I am a scientist, writer, editor, translator, and teacher living in the southern French city of Nice. I have written about biology and French science policy for publications including Science magazine and ScienceNOW, and have also created materials (such as questions/answers and other activities) for textbooks such as Molecular Biology of the Gene, Campbell/Reece's Biology, and Human Heredity, Principles and Issues. For a list of my publications, click here.

In addition to writing, I professionally edit English-language scientific texts and translate scientific documents from French into English. To learn more about my editing and translation services, click here.

When I'm not writing, editing, or working in the lab, I teach scientific English at the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis

Before making the leap into science writing, editing, and teaching, I studied DNA replication in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a graduate student in Patrick O'Farrell's lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to that, I examined the genetics of the Fragile-X syndrome as an undergraduate in Charles Laird's lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. Finally, since the summer of 2008 I have returned to the lab and am now working on cell polarity in yeast in Rob Arkowitz's laboratory at the Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer.