Donald Forsdyke
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Rather than a "historian of science," I am a "scientist historian" by virtue of a long laboratory "apprenticeship" (beginning in 1964) and then a broadening into bioinformatics (late 1980s) and then increasing attention to biohistory (biographies of Darwin's research associate, George Romanes and of geneticist William Bateson). The works of these figures, together with those of Samuel Butler, strongly influenced my bioinformatics text - Evolutionary Biology, which is now in its third edition (2016). |
| Interests | Bioinformatics, Genomics, Theoretical Biology, Speciation, AIDS, Evolution, Biohistory, Darwin, Butler, Romanes, Bateson, Goldschmidt, Chargaff, Wada, G0/G1 switch genes (G0S genes), Immunology, Malaria |