Raf M. Podowski SeeqPod, Inc., 6425 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, California 94608 (rafseeqpod.com). Mr. Podowski is currently completing a Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics at the Karolinska Institute while working as a Chief Scientific Officer at SeeqPod, Inc., an exploratory search technology startup, of which he is also a co-founder. He holds a licentiate of philosophy in molecular biology from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an M.S. degree in engineering physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Podowski has worked as a senior product manager for life sciences at Oracle, as a text-mining consultant at AstraZeneca, and as a senior bioinformatics scientist at X-Mine, Inc., where he developed a number of life science applications in text mining, drug discovery informatics, and genomic data analysis.

Brett Miller GenePilot, Inc., P.O. Box 21225, El Sobrante, California 94820 (brettgenepilot.com). Mr. Miller is a technology consultant whose background includes producing award-winning educational software products as Project Manager and Senior Programmer for Sierra On-Line and Platform Engine Architect for Broderbund Software, Inc. He worked in DNA microarray analysis software development as Director of Engineering for X-Mine, Inc. and in media center control system software for Cisco Systems.

Wyeth W. Wasserman Center for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, 950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 4H4 (wyethcmmt.ubc.ca). Dr. Wasserman is an Associate Professor who leads a research group in computational biology. His research addresses the analysis of regulatory sequences in the human genome through phylogenetic footprinting and analysis of clusters of transcription-factor binding sites. After earning college degrees in both mathematics and cell biology, he completed his doctorate in oncology studying gene regulation in cancer prevention. Dr. Wasserman led a research group at the Karolinska Institute and has worked as a computational biologist in the pharmaceutical industry.