Kamyar Farahi (Ph.D. 2002) earned his B.S at the University of Georgia in 1993. He subsequently entered the Microbiology Graduate Program and joined Barny Whitman’s laboratory.  His dissertation was entitled “Determining the Evolution of the Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases by the Ratios of Evolutionary Distances (RED) Method”.  This work resulted in two first-author papers, one in Bioinformatics (2003) and one in Journal of  Molecular Evolution (2004).  In addition, he is co-author on an article in Archives of Microbiology (2004) from a collaborative project with Juergen Wiegel.  After finishing his Ph.D., Kamy was a Lecturer/Advisor in the Department of Biology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. for two years.  He then took a joint Research Scientist position with the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, IL, which had teamed up to start the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes.  Since 2005, Kamy is a Senior Clinical Scientist / Medical Science Liaison at Johnson & Johnson –