At A Glance

Name: John Yates III

Age: 45

Position: Professor of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute, since 2000.

Background: Developed SEQUEST and Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology (MudPIT) for shotgun proteomics.

Associate professor, University of Washington, 1992-2000.

Post-doctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology, Leroy Hood’s lab, 1989-92.

PhD in chemistry, University of Virginia, Don Hunt’s lab, 1987.

BS in zoology, University of Maine, 1980.