I'm Janine, and I majored in Biology and minored in Computer Science for my Bachelor (of Arts) degree. I technically did the evolution/ecology track, but I did do an independent study for one of my professors that involved more bioinformatics. I used Perl to determine the rate that new species of fungi were being discovered and entered into GenBank.

I didn't actually use my degree in a job until this year, when I got a job at a biotech company that studies plant genes to make crops that are more resilient (and to hopefully make biofuels too). I'm doing programming, but not really bioinformatics...I'm doing LIMS development (specifically, processing log files from laboratory robots), plus web interfaces for viewing and manipulating data and for supporting stuff like a way to order lab media and seed stocks and such.

I hope to learn some stuff here! :)