Joseph DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology. Read full biography of Joseph DeRisi →
When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was... →
It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of... →
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic... →
I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.
I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate... →
Joseph DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.