Bette Korber

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Bette Korber is a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.  She obtained a Ph.D. in Immunology from Caltech in 1988, and was a Leukemia Society postdoctoral fellow in retrovirology at Harvard before joining the Theoretical Biology group at Los Alamos in 1990. Her research involves understanding the impact of the human immune response on HIV evolution, and the implications of HIV diversity for vaccine design.

Her research is often directed towards developing better statistical and visualization strategies for analyzing patterns in mutational data, and relating viral sequence variation data to experimental or phenotypic parameters.