Charles Delisi on Lee Hood
  Charles Delisi     Biography    
Recorded: 08 Sep 2003

Going back to the—since our meeting I think of the people there, the major people there, Lee Hood was there and he was, I mean, Lee is obviously a strong advocate and a strong doer of large scale science. And actually I invited Lee to DOE fairly early on. I knew his brother before I knew him. His brother is a mathematician and we used to go to Gordon Conferences together. So Lee was important.

Charles DeLisi did pioneering work in theoretical and mathematical immunology. He received his Ph.D. in physics and did postdoctoral studies in the chemistry department at Yale University researching RNA structure. He became a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and then moved to the National Institute of Health, where he worked on molecular and cell immunology for ten years.

DeLisi is currently director of the Biomolecular Systems Laboratory, Chair of the Bioinformatics Program, Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering and Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering at Boston University.

Charles DeLisi develops computational methods for high throughput genomic and proteomic analysis. His laboratory is helping to develop technologies for fingerprinting the complete molecular state of a cell. He is interested in finding computational methods for determining protein function and researches the structural basis of signal translation by membrane bound receptors, the structural basis of voltage gating, and the docking of peptide hormones and neurotransmitters at their sites of action.

In 1986, DeLisi and Watson met at a CSHL meeting and spoke about their interests in sequencing the human genome.