AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Dr. Martinez Hewlett received his PhD in biochemistry in 1973 from the University of Arizona. He served as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. David Baltimore at, where he specialized in the molecular biology of first poliovirus and then the emerging family of bunyaviruses. His specialty has been the molecular biology of the family Bunyaviridae, with special emphasis on the members of the California serogroup viruses, notably LaCrosse and snowshoe hare viruses. He became an emeritus professor in January 2003. In addition he is a novelist having published one novel (Sangre de Cristo: A Novel of Science and Faith) and is working on a second. He is also interested in the philosophical aspects of science and has been an active participant in the St. Albert the Great Forum on Theology and the Sciences, held at the University of Arizona Newman Center. He is a lay member of the religious order of Dominicans.