Stephen Freeland
Stephen Freeland is an
Asst. Prof. Bioinformatics, UMBC, Maryland. He
received Bachelor's degree in zoology from Oxford University, a
Master's degree in Computing and Mathematics from the University of
York, UK, and a Ph.D from Cambridge University's Department of
Genetics. His research uses a combination of theory, simulation and
wet-lab experimentation to explore a host of fundemental questions
about the evolution of the genetic code, including, the emergence and
role of the standard code in the origin and evolution of life, from
E.coli to humans, what evolutionary forces have caused the code to
change in disparate lineages, and how the code's properties influence
the general process of evolution, and hence the composition and form
of modern genomes.