Raymond E. Keller
Ray Keller is the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professor of Biology, and Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Virginia, where he served as Chair of the Department of Biology (1999-2004) and Program Director of the NIH Developmental Biology Training Grant. His laboratory is known for using live imaging of cell motility and biomechanical measurements of normal and experimentally manipulated embryos and embryonic explants to learn how molecular and cellular events generate the patterned forces and tissue mechanical properties that shape the embryo.
He has taught in the Embryology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and in the Xenopus course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2020, Keller received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology.
He obtained a Ph.D degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1975), did postdoctoral work with J.P. Trinkaus (Yale University) and Robert Briggs (Indiana University, Bloomington), joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley (1980), and moved to the University of Virginia (1995).