Affidivation:

University of California, Berkeley

NSF Directorate:

BIO

Gender:

F

Award Year:

2003

Citation:

For conducting groundbreaking investigations, using computational methods, to describe how certain proteins are able to confer disease resistance on plants. Her approach allows protein sequences to be analyzed, then clustered, so new algorithms may be applied toward better predictions about protein structure and function. She is integrating her research into computational biology courses for undergraduate and graduate students that will enable them to tackle many computational challenges.