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by academonic 1970 days ago
I think the grad student was this guy: https://twitter.com/dougfowler42 (Douglas M Fowler)

His work at Scripps matches the same research group and timeframe of when dnautics was there, and he's now a professor in UW's genomics lab. The topic described seems to fit what he was researching then, and he received a prestigious grad student award for it.