Bruce R. Conklin began research training with Julius Axelrod, Ph.D., (Nobel Laureate, NIH), did his residency at Johns Hopkins and a postdoctoral fellowship with Henry Bourne (UCSF).  In 1995 Conklin joined the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF as faculty. Conklin is the founder of several public stem cell and genomics projects including BayGenomics, GenMAPP and WikiPathways. He pioneered the use of designer G protein coupled receptors (RASSLs) for tissue engineering. He serves on multiple scientific advisory boards including the Allen Institute for Cell Science, Tenaya Therapeutics and the Exploratorium.  He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and is a Fellow in the California Academy of Sciences.