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Richard Schneider grew up in New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in 1991. He received his M.Sc. in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 1998 from Duke University where his graduate thesis work focused on skull development and evolution in birds and mammals. Rich also trained at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Rich did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He joined the UCSF faculty in 2001. Rich's research is centered on understanding how individual components of the craniofacial complex achieve their proper size, shape, and functional integration during development and evolution. To address this issue, Rich has created a transplantation system that involves two distinct types of birds (quail and duck). Quail and duck differ considerably in their growth rates and anatomy, and transplanting cells between them challenges the resulting chimeric "quck" and "duail" embryos to integrate two different species-specific developmental programs for size and shape. This strategy has illuminated molecular and cellular mechanisms that pattern the craniofacial complex. A goal is to devise novel therapies for regenerating tissues affected by birth defects, disease, and trauma. Rich's work has also helped elucidate the role of development in evolution.