Maya Schuldiner

Maya Schuldiner: The systems that define us

Inspired by her parents, who both worked in academia, Maya Schuldiner knew she wanted to focus on biological or medical studies after high school and her service in the Israeli Army. But just before her fi rst semester of medical school, she took a few months off to travel to the lush beaches in Thailand. In her beach bag were several popular science books her brother had given her for the trip...

Cell scientist to watch--Maya Schuldiner.

Maya Schuldiner pursued her PhD degree under the guidance of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She carried out her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. Jonathan Weissman at the University of California, San Francisco, with support from the Human Frontiers Science Program and the Sandler Fellows Program. Since 2008, Maya has been running her own laborator...

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

The Maya Forest: destroyed or cultivated by the ancient Maya?

B oth academic and popular perceptions concerning the relationship between the Maya (ancient and modern) and the Maya Forest in which their culture developed and persisted formore than three millennia are varied and continuously subject to change (1). The analysis of a sediment core from a pond located near the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, interpreted byMcNeil et al. (2) in this issue ...