David Konerding

David Konerding

David Konerding, Ph.D. (dek@konerding.com) is a Senior Engineer at Google. In his past lives, he was Senior Architect for Research Computing at Genentech, Computer Scientist in the Distributed Systems Department at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. a postdoctoral scholar for Steven Brenner and Kimmen Sjolander at UC Berkeley, a programmer for the Computer Graphics Lab and a graduate student in the Doctoral Program of the Graduate Group in Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.

His current scientific interests include:

• Research into Computational Grid Technologies, promoting the use of Grid Technologies in computational biology and chemistry
• Functional characterization of anti-cancer nucleosides such as gemcitabine, cytarabine, and 5-fluoro-uracil
• Use of NMR and molecular dynamics simulations to understand the energetics of protein/nucleic acid interactions
• Structural and Functional Genomics
• Rapid, accurate functional classification of structural genomics targets
• Evaluation of sequence comparison techniques, including pairwise, profile, and iterative profile methods
• Development of optimized target selection strategies
• Recognition of ancient, conserved protein functionality between prokaryotic, archae, and eukaryotic genomes
• Here are my scientific publications

Past interests, which are not being actively pursued:

• Development of the Chimera Collaboratory
• I have a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Here's my undergraduate thesis, Prediction of Gene-encoding Regions in E.Coli DNA.

Dave has some non-scientific interests as well...

• My wife Martha's home page
• Potential employers, information seekers, etc: here is David Konerding's resumé.