John Conery is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at the University of Oregon.  He has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UC San Diego and a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the UC Irvine.  He is an author on numerous research publications in both computer science and biology, and is the author of Explorations in Computing, a textbook on “big ideas” in computer science for non-majors.  He is currently teaching courses that introduce biology majors to Python programming and bioinformatics.