Current Protocols Editorial Board: Bioinformatics

Current Protocols Web Advisory Panel

 

Andreas D. Baxevanis (Editor-in-Chief)
Dr. Baxevanis is the Deputy Scientific Director and the Director of the Computational Genomics Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health.

He received his B.S. in biological sciences from Cornell University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in the Department of Biology at The Johns Hopkins University in 1991, where his thesis work involved understanding the basic physicochemical properties of the core histone proteins. His
postdoctoral work at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, concentrated on understanding both the core histones and the high mobility group class of proteins from an informatics standpoint, applying both sequence- and structure-based techniques in identifying key structural determinants for these chromosomal proteins.

Dr. Baxevanis’ research focuses on better-understanding structure-function relationships in the homoeodomain class of proteins and how mutations in these proteins contribute to human disease. More recently, his research has focused on the use of phylogenetic techniques to decipher the evolution of these homeodomain transcription factors. His group is also involved in projects aimed at the identification of certain key human disease genes, as well as in the development of new approaches for the analysis of sequence, gene expression, and clinical data. Finally, he is one of the lead investigators of the Multiplex Initiative, a large-scale, multi-center clinical and behavioral study aimed at better-understanding the reasons for electing (or not electing) to receive genetic susceptibility tests, how patients will interpret the information once they are tested, and how they will ultimately use this information in making health care decisions in the future.

He is co-author of the textbook Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins, now in its third edition. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. He has also served as executive editor for the Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research, associate editor of Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, and Senior Editor of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Dr. Baxevanis currently serves on a number of academic scientific advisory boards.

His involvement in educational activities include teaching bioinformatics at The Johns Hopkins University, serving as an adjunct faculty member at Boston University, lecturing in numerous courses, and developing materials such as the User’s Guide to the Human Genome, a recent supplement to Nature Genetics intended to facilitate the use of genomic sequence data.

Dr. Baxevanis’ accomplishments have been recognized by the Bodossaki Foundation, who has awarded him their 2000 Academic Prize in Medicine and Biology. This award is Greece’s highest honor for young academics and scientists of Greek heritage throughout the world. In 2007, Dr. Baxevanis was awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s Outstanding Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of bioinformatics.

Gregory A. Petsko
Gregory Petsko is the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Brandeis University, where he also directs the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center. A Rhodes Scholar, Petsko was educated at Princeton, where he received his B.A. in chemistry in 1970, and at Oxford, where he received his D.Phil. in molecular biophysics in 1973. After a brief sojourn at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris, he joined the faculty of Wayne State University, moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. In 1990 he joined the Brandeis faculty. Petsko is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is working on time-resolved X-ray crystallography and related problems, with a particular emphasis on enzymology.

Website: http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/Pasteur/Pasteur_bios

Lincoln D. Stein
Lincoln is well known in both the bioinformatics community and the perl community where he was the author of the popular and widely distributed CGI.pm perl module for manipulating text. He is the principal architect of the Gbrowse system. Lincoln's lab is known for developing significant software for biological databases, data analysis and visualization, and sharing results. He writes for Web Techniques and The Perl Journal, and he has written several books on related subjects.

Website: http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/Stein.html

Gary D. Stormo
Dr. Stormo received his B.S. degree in biology from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and his and Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1981. He remained at the University of Colorado as a faculty member and was chosen for the Outstanding Teacher Award by the CU Mortarboard Society. He attained the rank of full professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Boulder before joining the faculty at WUSM in 1999.

Dr. Stormo is a pioneer in bioinformatics and genomics. His work has contributed to the understanding of regulation of gene expression and protein-DNA interactions. He is also a leading figure in the development of algorithms for data mining of DNA sequence data. His work has impacted both the fields of experimental and computational molecular biology but is also highly interdisciplinary beyond the fields of biology. He has been an invited speaker at conferences in the fields of Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Physics. His research is supported by both the NIH and the DOE. He has published more than 150 scientific papers.

Dr. Stormo has served as a U.S. member of the International Advisory Committee on Nucleic Acid Sequence Databases and on several NIH committees. He was Executive Editor of Bioinformatics and is currently Editor for Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, Deputy Executive Editor of Public Library of Science: Computational Biology and on the editorial board of several other journals. He served on the Board of Directors for the International Society for Computational Biology and was a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is an internationally popular lecturer and mentors several graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at WUSM.

John R. Yates III
John R. Yates III is an American chemist and professor of chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. His work is focused on developing tools and in proteomics and he specializes in mass spectrometry. He is probably best known for the development of the SEQUEST algorithm for automated peptide sequencing.