Anton Zuiker is a journalist, blogger and community builder living in Durham, North Carolina. Anton is currently Manager of Internal Communications for Duke Medicine.

Anton earned a master’s degree in medical journalism from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his thesis reporting project was a 12,000-word narrative magazine feature on a rise in HIV among college students in North Carolina.

Anton’s interests include infectious diseases, genetic technology, urban design and online communities. Formerly editor of Northern Ohio Live Magazine, Anton wrote the “Inventing the Future” column about innovation for that magazine.

He organized the “Weblogs and Journalism” seminar for North Carolina journalists in March 2004, the UNC-CH “Narratives of HIV” series of media awareness events in Spring 2004, the Triangle Bloggers Conference in February 2005 and the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference in January 2007. He is also organizing the second annual science blogging conference for January 2008.

Anton spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, where he organized a multi-island solar electrification project. Anton administers multiple websites and weblogs, including a personal weblog at www.mistersugar.com and a North Carolina blogger community site at www.blogtogether.org.

Learn more about Anton at http://mistersugar.com/about.