David Baker

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

e are trying to understand how amino acid sequences determine protein three dimensional structures using a combination of molecular biological, biophysical and computational methods.

Phone:	206-543-1295
FAX:	206-685-1792
Email:	baker@ben.bchem.washington.edu
WWW:	http://depts.washington.edu/bakerpg/
Address:	Dept. of Biochemistry/Biophysics University of Washington Box 357350 Seattle, WA 98195

Christopher J. Diorio

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

hristopher Diorio builds integrated circuits modeled after neurobiology. He has developed single-transistor devices, called synapse transistors, that mimic the local synaptic adaptation (plasticity) seen in nervous tissue. He is investigating local learning in arrays of silicon synapse transistors, both to understand how biology might use adaptation on a large scale, and also to investigate how engineers might build smart silicon machines.

Phone:	206-543-7165
FAX:	206-543-2969
Email:	diorio@cs.washington.edu
WWW:	http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/diorio/
Address:	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Box 352350, 114 Sieg Hall Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Christopher W. Stubbs

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

am currently investigating problems that lie at the boundary between astrophysics and particle physics: the dark matter problem and the cosmological constant question.

Phone:	206-543-9375
FAX:	206-685-0403
Email:	stubbs@astro.washington.edu
WWW:	http://www.astro.washington.edu/stubbs/
Address:	Dept. of Astronomy University of Washington Box 351580 Seattle, WA 98195