I'm a second year graduate student in the Department listed in my
signature below. My background is in mathematics and computer science,
definitely not biology, and they accepted me ;)
The University of Washington is an excellent place to study computational
biology. In our department, Phil Green and Tim Hunkapiller are both
computational biologists; Elizabeth Thompson in the Statistics department
works on issues such as estimating genetic linkage; Richard Karp, who is
well-known for work on combinatorial problems in computer science, has
recently joined the Computer Science department and is interested in
computational biology, as are some of the other faculty in that
department; Joe Felsenstein in Genetics works on phylogeny and
population genetics predominantly. Steve and Jorja Henikoff, who are at
the nearby Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have also contributed
in this field. David Baker's group in Biochemistry also does a
significant amount of computational work in the area of protein
structure, and Terry Lybrand in Bioengineering works on protein structure
modelling (and docking, if I'm not mistaken). And there may be more,
I've only been here a little over a year.
I suspect our department is the most appropriate one to apply to if you
want to work in computational biology. Contact me by e-mail at the
address below if you want to know more.
Max Robinson Department of Molecular Biotechnology
max at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Box 356630
(206) 616-5051 Health Sciences K-wing, room K-346
Help someone smile. Seattle, WA 98195 USA
