Biographical sketches of authors

Teresa Head-Gordon   Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1762 (electronic mail: TLHead-Gordon@lbl.gov). Dr. Head-Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1989 from Carnegie Mellon University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories during 1990–1992. Her research program encompasses simulation, theory, and experimentation in the area of protein folding, structure prediction, and aqueous hydration of biological systems.

John C. Wooley   University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0043, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92037-0043 (electronic mail: jwooley@ucsd.edu). Dr. Wooley is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), an adjunct professor in pharmacology and in chemistry and biochemistry, and a Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1975 at The University of Chicago, working with Al Crewe and Robert Uretz in biological physics. Dr. Wooley created the first programs within the U.S. federal government for funding research in bioinformatics and in computational biology, and has been involved in strengthening the interface between computing and biology for more than a decade. His current research involves bioinformatics and structural genomics, and his principal objectives at the UCSD are to stimulate new research initiatives, especially in the application of computational and information technology to science.