Nancy A. Moran is the Raymer Endowed Chair in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas-Austin. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her honors include membership in the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a MacArthur fellowship, the International Prize for Biology, and the Selman Waksman award in microbiology. Moran's research is on symbiosis, especially that between insects and microbes. She explores how symbioses have shaped and continue to shape insect evolution and insect populations.
