Jasper Rine

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Jasper Rine is a biologist specialized in the yeast genome.

1 Biography
2 Stolen laptop
3 Notes and references
4 External links

[edit] Biography

He is currently the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Genetics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, Rine was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Rine received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1975 and his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the University of Oregon in 1979. He then joined the Berkeley faculty in 1982. He is also former director of the Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, a honorific leadership group of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Rine is also one of the organizers of the Dog Genome Project.

He has founded several startups, including Acacia Biosciences (now part of Merck & Co.). He is usually considered to be very close to biotech firms, which has led other scholars to question his possible conflicts of interest.

[edit] Stolen laptop

In April of 2005, Rine's laptop was stolen from a lecture hall at UC Berkeley. He appeared a week later in the same lecture hall to warn the thief, purportedly a student, that the hard-drive contained important data - trade secrets, details of a one-hundred million dollar trial, sensitive business information from a pre-public company planning an IPO - for which the thief would be pursued and prosecuted by US federal authorities. Rine gave a deadline to return the computer warning that the student's academic career was over and that, "I'm the only hope you've got of staying out of deeper trouble than you or any other student that I have ever known has ever been in." Later the university press office admitted that Rine's threats were "exaggerated." The deadline passed without the return of the computer or the purported stolen data.^[1]