Terry Gaasterland

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| caption = Terry Gaasterland speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Vienna in 2011

| birth_name = Theresa Gaasterland

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| workplaces = University of California, San Diego

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| alma_mater = Duke University (BS){{cite web|url=http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/tgaasterland|title=Research Profiles|website=Research Profiles}}
University of Maryland, College Park (MS, PhD)

| thesis_title = Generating cooperative answers in deductive databases

| thesis_url = https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=166913

| thesis_year = 1992

| doctoral_advisor = Jack Minker{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Theresa|last=Gaasterland |title= Generating cooperative answers in deductive databases |publisher=University of Maryland, College Park |date=1992 |url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=166913 |oclc=843767978 |website=acm.org}} {{subscription required}}

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| awards = ISCB Fellow (2018)

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Theresa Gaasterland is an American politician and scientist. She is a Professor of Computational Biology and Genomics and Director of the Scripps Genome Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).{{cite web|url=http://igm.ucsd.edu/faculty/profiles/gaasterland.shtml|title=Terry Gaasterland, Ph.D. Institute for Genomic Medicine - UC San Diego Health Sciences|website=igm.ucsd.edu}}{{cite journal|last1=Brazma|first1=Alvis|last2=Hingamp|first2=Pascal|last3=Quackenbush|first3=John|last4=Sherlock|first4=Gavin|last5=Spellman|first5=Paul|last6=Stoeckert|first6=Chris|last7=Aach|first7=John|last8=Ansorge|first8=Wilhelm|last9=Ball|first9=Catherine A.|last10=Causton|first10=Helen C.|last11=Gaasterland|first11=Terry|last12=Glenisson|first12=Patrick|last13=Holstege|first13=Frank C.P.|last14=Kim|first14=Irene F.|last15=Markowitz|first15=Victor|last16=Matese|first16=John C.|last17=Parkinson|first17=Helen|last18=Robinson|first18=Alan|last19=Sarkans|first19=Ugis|last20=Schulze-Kremer|first20=Steffen|last21=Stewart|first21=Jason|last22=Taylor|first22=Ronald|last23=Vilo|first23=Jaak|last24=Vingron|first24=Martin|title=Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)—toward standards for microarray data|journal=Nature Genetics|volume=29|issue=4|year=2001|pages=365–371|issn=1061-4036|doi=10.1038/ng1201-365|pmid= 11726920|s2cid=6994467|doi-access=free}} {{closed access}} She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.{{cite web|url=https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows|title=ISCB Fellows|website=www.iscb.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320114530/https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows|archive-date=2017-03-20}}

She was elected to the city council of Del Mar, California in 2018, and the city council elected her to be the city's mayor. The position of mayor of Del Mar rotates among the city councilmembers. During her seventeen years as a Del Mar resident before running for office, she served on the city's finance and sea level rise advisory committees.{{Cite web|title=Staff Directory • Del Mar, CA • CivicEngage|url=https://www.delmar.ca.us/directory.aspx?EID=13|access-date=2021-12-09|website=www.delmar.ca.us}} She served a year as mayor, until, in 2022, the position of mayor was passed to fellow city councilmember Dwight Worden.{{Cite web|date=2022-01-11|title=2022 Spotlight: Q&A with Del Mar Mayor Dwight Worden|url=https://www.delmartimes.net/news/story/2022-01-11/2022-spotlight-q-a-with-del-mar-mayor-dwight-worden|access-date=2022-01-12|website=Del Mar Times}} Gaasterland opposes efforts by the California Coastal Commission to mandate managed retreat as a response to sea level rise in Del Mar.{{Cite web |last=Mulkern |first=Anne C. |date=7 October 2019 |title=Coastal City Refuses to Retreat |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coastal-city-refuses-to-retreat/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Scientific American |language=en}}