Stephen M. Mount
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Email is the best way to reach me. RNAinfo [at] yahoo.com or
smount [at] umd.edu steve [at] stevemount.info

yahoo.com. My primary id is RNAinfo. There are others that go into the same yahoo mailbox. If I gave you one of those other addresses, please use it in order to help me find your email.

umd.edu. This is my professional email address at the University of Maryland. My id is smount. Mail sent to this address is actualy forwarded first to steve [at] stevemount.info (where a record is kept) and then to a gmail account, where I actually read it. For years, this has been an extremely reliable set-up and mail sent to my umd.edu address always reached me promptly (even when the umd.edu webmail was down). Recently (September, 2009) some mail sent to me at umd.edu (from reliable, jhu.edu and psu.edu, addresses) did not get through. The problem is with umd.edu, so I recommend sending your mail directly to steve [at] stevemount.info (which is more reliable, at least for now).

other sites. I do use other email addresses for specific purposes. If you have one of those, it could be right. Certainly, it's OK to just use reply. Exceptions are addresses at wam.umd.edu, umail.umd.edu and zool.umd.edu, which no longer work.

Use the Yahoo address if your email is commercial in nature.
I have no tolerance for commercial email at my umd address, so if you are selling something the Yahoo address is the only way for you to send me email that won't go unread into my spam folder. If you are notifying me of an upcoming conference, book, journal or event of any other kind, you should use the Yahoo address. If your email is going out to more than five people you should probably use the Yahoo address. If you are not sure which address to use, you should use the Yahoo address.

Phone: 301-405-6934
(this number is HJ Patterson Hall, where my lab is)
301-405-9904 rings my office in the Center for Bioinformatics.
If I don't answer, and you have the option of sending email rather than voicemail, please do. It will almost certainly be read before I check voicemail.

Fax: 301-314-9081.
If you want to send me a fax, tell me by email that you have done so; otherwise I may miss it.

web: stevemount.org

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Stephen M. Mount
Dept. of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
H.J. Patterson Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-5815