Edward Marcotte is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Mr. and Mrs. Corbin J. Robertson, Sr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology. He is an evolutionary biochemist whose research broadly uses tools of proteomics, bioinformatics, and systems and synthetic biology, with current work focused on the interactions, dynamics, and evolution of proteins across the tree of life. Marcotte has authored 230 journal publications and 22 issued/in process patents, received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-founded the single-molecule protein sequencing company Erisyon, Inc.