Life Science Careers / Perspectives in Physiology (PDF)

Dr. Jasna Markovac comes from a family of scientists; both her parents were scientists themselves. She earned her doctorate in human genetics at the University of Michigan and pursued postdoctoral training in molecular biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Following her training, she held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. For 20 years, she served as an editor, journals director, and vice president at major scientific publishing firms before returning to academia as a manager of a learning design and publishing team that provides editorial and consulting services to faculty, staff, and students. Today, she continues her work in academia while maintaining her own consulting firm where her clients include the University of Michigan and Yale University. Markovac has been an active contributor to several professional societies, including the American Physiological Society (APS), Society for Developmental Biology, the Societyfor Neuroscience, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). She is the Founding Editor of FASEB BioAdvances, and guest editor of several journal special issues on topics related to careers beyond the bench, as well as biomedical and medical education.


Dr. Kim E. Barrett is originally from the United Kingdom, and earned both her B.Sc. (Medicinal Chemistry) and her Ph.D. (Biological Chemistry) from University College London, England as the first in her family to pursue post-secondary education. She continued her training with a postdoc at the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and then held a faculty position at the University of California San Diego, where she rose to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Medicine and also served as Dean of the Graduate Division. She is currently Vice Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology in the School of Medicine at the University of