Tim Stearns is a Professor in the Stanford University Department of Biology, the Stanford University Medical School Department of Genetics, and the Cancer Biology Program. Dr. Stearns received his Ph.D. at MIT, was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco, and joined the Stanford faculty in 1993. Research in Dr. Stearns' lab is focused on the centrosome and cilium, microtubule-based structures that are at the center of cell signaling and cell division. Stearns is the recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor award, and has taught laboratory courses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Woods Hole, and internationally in Chile, South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania. He currently holds the Frank Lee and Carol Professorship at Stanford University.