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 Changes in Administrative Staff
In April, W. Dillaway Ayres joined the Laboratory as associate administrative director. Dill earned a B.A. from Princeton University, where he majored in English literature, and an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business Administration. He gained extensive experience in corporate planning and finance at several companies, including Capital Cities/ABC Inc. and American Express Company, and was an investment banker at Veronis, Suhler & Associates Inc., which specializes in television and radio broadcasting. Most recently, he was cofounder, executive vice president, and chief financial officer of Business and Trade Network (BATNET), which provides Internet services to national and international associations.
In July, after working for several months as a consultant, Deborah Barnes became director of Public Affairs. Deborah earned a Ph.D. in biology from Georgetown University and did postdoctoral research at the Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. She taught high school biology for five years, was a news writer for the journal Science, taught science writing for the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Program, and for seven years was editor of The Journal of NIH Research. Deborah has initiated a public lecture series about cancer and the production of a video about CSHL tentatively entitled "A Year in the Life of the Lab."
Late in 1998, soon after the Watson School of Biological Sciences became a formal entity, Lilian Gann was recruited as Assistant Dean. Lilian received her Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for her research on adenovirus transcriptional regulation. After postdoctoral studies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London, she became administration manager at the ICRF and earned an M.B.A. In her role as administration manager, she helped direct the graduate student and postdoctoral programs. Most recently, Lilian was director of cancer support services at CancerBACUP, a U.K. charity that helps people with cancer. Lilian, too, worked as a consultant before assuming her full-time position in early March 1999.
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