Professor Mazin B. Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. He is director of the main clinical cytogenetics laboratory and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke, and Yale Universities. He published over 150 scientific papers on topics ranging from biodiversity to cancer. For more, see http://qumsiyeh.org and http://PalestineNature.org