summer, '95. From a machine in a Paris metro station, my mugshot for
the monthly metro pass, Coupon Orange...
NEWS! I've taken a faculty position at the Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, where I will be working on my favorite research problems in structural and functional biology: remote homology detection (and fold prediction), identification of protein domains, predicting binding pockets in proteins, subfamily classification, molecular evolution, protein-protein interaction, and so on. As a new faculty member, I'll be very interested to find people who are interested in this kind of work, who'd like to come to Berkeley for their doctoral work or for postdoctoral positions. Write to me!
Now, on to the really important things: pictures of my monkeys...
I got my name from my Swedish-American mother's enthusiasm for classical Greek literature. Funny thing, though: she changed the spelling of Cimon, (a rather interesting character from Plutarch's Lives) to Kimmen, giving me an authentic Swedish name -- a nickname for men named Joakim! My guess is she heard this name from her parents, who would speak Swedish when they didn't want the kids to understand what they were saying...
From 1999 to November, 2001, I worked at Celera Genomics, and was privileged to have helped the annotation of the newly sequenced human genome, published in