My laboratory is part of the

Department of Computer Science (CS),
      Artificial Intelligence (AI) Group,
Department of Mathematics,
Department of Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Program in Computational Biology,
Duke Cancer Institute,
Center for Quantitative BioDesign,
Center for Genomic and Computational Biology,
Algorithms Group (Theory Group, Duke CS),
Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, and
the Duke Institute for Brain Science.

My lab is suppported by an NIH Outstanding Investigator Grant. We are grateful to the NIH for their support.

You can browse my books and papers, learn about research in my laboratory, read about my lab in the news, see Wallace (a generative AI demo), or take my (not entirely?) Random Walk:
  1975-1976 Harvard, Special Student
  1976-1980 Yale, B.A.
  1980-1984 Harvard, GSD
  1982-1987 MIT AI Lab, Ph.D. in Computer Science
  1985-1987 NASA JPL, CalTech. Fellowship
  1987-1998 Cornell Computer Science Department, Professor
  1987-1997      CSRVL, Director
  1989          I.R.S.T, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Trento
  1994-1996 Stanford University, Sabbatical
  1995-1997 Interval Research Corporation
  1997-2006 Dartmouth, Professor
  2018-now  Ten63 Therapeutics, Founder
  2006-now  Duke, Professor.
  2007-2010      CBB Director, DUMC

For specific questions, you can marvel at my students, lab alumni and our academic lineage, read a short biography, or see my C.V.

Our lab has a YouTube channel.

Here is some advice for young scientists, including tips on using LaTeX for NIH grant applications.

I have a bit of fun stuff: you can check out my band, more music (MP3s), MEMS movies, robot movies, and other hacks.

Fun facts:
   My Erdös Number is 3.
   Only 0.29% of mathematicians have supervised more than 30 PhD dissertations.
   I was...
     — the 2^nd Ph.D. student to join the lab of my advisor,
     — and the 4^th to graduate.
     — the 2^nd AI professor hired at Cornell (1987).
     — the 1^st tenured AI profesor at Cornell (1993).
     — the 1^st James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science (2012) — now we have two!
   My third cousin is Elvis Presley’s first cousin once removed.
   My father was born and raised in Goodman, MS — the last successful stop that Casey Jones made (before fatally crashing at Vaughan in 1900).

Contact:
Bruce R. Donald
Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center
P.O. Box 90129
Department of Computer Science
D101 Levine Science Research Center (LSRC)
Research Drive
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0129 USA

Please do not publish my ε-maiℓ address on any website or maiℓing list or book (yes, people have actually published books that are lists of scientists' εmaiℓ addresses). It will cause me to receive spam, since the address can be harvested by advertisers.

Phone: 919-660-6583

Office: D212 Levine Science Research Center (LSRC)
Donald Laboratory:

Dry-Lab: D240 LSRC, 660-4017
Wet-Lab: 3245, 3246, & 3248 French Family Science Center (FFSC), 660-4018

Google maps; Duke Maps: LSRC, FFSC

Textbook (MIT Press).

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Chiral evasion and stereospecific antifolate resistance in Staph. aureus

PLoS Computational Biology (2022)
Cover article