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	Kevin Messner received a Ph.D. in Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied the generation of toxic metabolic byproducts formed during aerobic respiration in bacteria. Kevin also received an M.S. in Library and Information Science at Illinois. While a graduate student, Messner worked with the Biology Student Workbench project, a bioinformatics education effort aimed at high school and undergraduate-level teachers and students. Prior to his current position as Life Science Librarian at Miami University in Ohio, he served as Assistant Science Librarian at the Magrath and Bio-Medical Libraries, and Interim Head of the Veterinary Medical Library, at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. As part of his duties at Minnesota, Messner gave workshops and course lectures on NCBI resources and other bioinformatics topics and he now continues to do this at Miami University, where bioinformatics is gaining an increasing focus.