Research interests: phylogenetics, RNA structure, early eukaryotes.

Academic history: PhD 2001 Indiana University (Advisor: Jeff Palmer) BA 1986 St. John's College, Santa Fe.

Employment history: 2002-2003, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (Bioinformatics), University of Texas at Austin (Advisors: Hillis, Gutell, Warnow);

1987-1992, GenBank, Los Alamos National Laboratory, DNA sequence database annotation, programming, management;

1986-1987, Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (evolution of medieval swords).