David Wright:  

Life Here follows a brief synopsis of my life since I started high school: After spending my first two years of high school at Clovis High in Clovis, CA, I moved to Honolulu, HI in the Summer of 1973. In 1975, I graduated from McKinley High School in Honolulu, HI. A month after graduation, I reported to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO for Basic Cadet Training. That lasted until I got fed up with extremely high jerk quotient there, and also found out that a degree in Astronautical Engineering was more likely to get me a seat in a missile silo in North Dakota than a seat in the cockpit of a space shuttle. I withdrew from the Academy a few weeks after arriving and moved back to Fresno, CA, which is where I lived prior to moving to HI. After another very unsatisfactory experience with the military (California Air National Guard), I went back to school and got my BA in Biology from Fresno State. I then went East for graduate school. I worked on recognition of DNA sequences by proteins in the lab of Professor Paul Modrich at Duke University. I got my Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Genetics from Duke in 1990. I spent the next 2 years doing postdoctoral research at MIT and UNC. In 1993 I went to work as a research scientist at the Becton Dickinson Research Center in North Carolina, where I spent almost nine years developing methods for DNA-based diagnosis of infectious disease. I then moved to Mad...Expand for more