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My bio, professional career:
I'm a biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris.
Attended DePauw U, graduated from U of Washington, BS in Zoology.
Ph.D. from U of Oregon, Institute of Neurosci.
Spent a couple of years as a VAX system manager, specialist in image analysis.
Post-doc with M Bastiani at U of Utah, on insect neurodevelopment.
Taught at Temple U.
Now in Minnesota, until I die.

Areya @Areya

@pzmyers very cool. I received my B.S. in Biology and currently in a Bioinformatics M.S. program at Northeastern University in Boston. On top of our scientific backgrounds, we both share the misery of endless winter

@Areya We need more bioinformatics people. It's a weakness in our program.

We also need to tell our incoming students that they need more math & computer science.

@pzmyers I agree with you on that. In an ideal world, I would like to focus on a hybrid of wet lab/computational work. I think that bridge needs to be formed between the two disciplines so everyone speaks the same language