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Mark Minie
received his PhD in Immunology from U. C. Berkeley, where he studied gene regulation in immune cells and won awards for his teaching skills. As a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, he studied the basic molecular mechanism behind gene expression during cellular development and published numerous papers in major peer-reviewed science journals.
Dr. Minie has extensive experience in the both the BioTechnology and IT industries, and has worked for companies such as ICOS and Microsoft. He has extensive experience teaching bioscience to a wide audience, and has managed seminars on such topics as nanobiotechnology and helped develop science education software for children.
Most recently, Dr. Minie has acted as the BioResearch Liaison at the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries, where he has managed a unique bioinformatics cooperative program, the University of Washington BioCommons, developed the new Web-based BioResearcher Toolkit, and taught the library's highly successful quarterly BioResearcher Tune-Up course in addition to providing research consultation services there.
He has also taught courses on bioinformatics resources at MLA meetings, and is actively sought-out as a biology education and training consultant/speaker by companies, organizations and writers. He most recently provided science consultation to internationally known hard-science fiction author Greg Bear for his award winning bioscience thrillers Darwin's Radio and its newly released sequel Darwin's Children. Dr. Minie is also a co-founder of array(bio), an new and prominent Seattle special interest group for scientists, programmers, and investors interested in the intersection between biology and computer science.
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