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Stuart
Brown, Ph.D., Research
Computing Resource, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
Stuart M. Brown is an Associate
Professor at the New York University School of Medicine,
Department of Cell Biology and is the Director of the NYU
Bioinformatics Core Facility. His research interests include
bioinformatics, genomics, and molecular evolution. He teaches
an annual Bioinformatics course for biomedical Ph.D. students
and a Medical Genomics course for medical students. He
also teaches bioinformatics short courses for graduate,
undergraduate, and post-graduate audiences at many locations
in the US. He holds a BS in Botany from the University
of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from
Cornell University. He is the author of “Bioinformatics:
A Biologist’s Guide to Biocomputing and the Internet” and “Essentials
of Medical Genomics.”
Debra Burhans, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor/Director Bioinformatics, Canisius College, Buffalo,
NY
Dr. Burhans directs the Bioinformatics
Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where
she also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Computer Science. Canisius is a private, liberal arts
college in the Jesuit tradition with an enrollment of approximately
3,000 full-time undergraduate students. Dr. Burhans has
a strong background and interest in undergraduate education
in computer science, bioinformatics, and interdisciplinary
science. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Michigan and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where
she was on the faculty as a Lecturer for four years. Dr.
Burhans is part of a regional group of bioinformatics educators
and researchers in Western New York and has participated
in a number of bioinformatics education and outreach activities.
V.
Celeste Carter, Ph.D.,
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Program Director,
Division of Biological and Health Sciences, Foothill College,
CA
V. Celeste Carter received her
Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Pennsylvania State University
School of Medicine in 1982 under the direction of Dr. Satvir
S. Tevethia. She moved to the University of California
at Berkeley for postdoctoral studies in the laboratory
of Dr. G. Steven Martin. She joined the Division of Biological
and Health Sciences at Foothill College in 1994 to develop
and head a Biotechnology Program, and has served for the
past two years as a Program Director in the Division of
Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation
(NSF). Prior to her arrival at NSF, she was the recipient
of a DUE-ATE award, which produced a set of case studies
and associated laboratories with biotechnology industry
partners. She was the acting lead program director for
the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program during
her second year, and worked on several other programs within
NSF including: CCLI, Noyce, NSDL, TPC and GK-12 (DGE).
She has recently returned to Foothill College to resume
her position as Director for both the Biotechnology and
Bioinformatics Programs.
Peter
Cooper, Ph.D.,
National Center for Biotechnology Information,
Bethesda, MD
Peter Cooper is a Staff Scientist
with the National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library
of Medicine.
He has provided outreach and training programs on NCBI
tools and
databases for the scientific research and education community
for the
past five years. His background includes work in many biological
disciplines including marine biology, biochemistry and
molecular
biology. He earned the Ph.D. in Marine Science from the
College of
William and Mary's School of Marine Science in 1996.
Joseph Day, Ph.D.,
Biotechnology Program Director, Lynnwood High School
Lynnwood, WA
Dr. Day has worked
in several areas related to molecular genetics and bioinformatics:
as a forensic serologist using protein genetic markers
at
a
crime lab
in Illinois; at the University of Washington (UW), conducting
population studies with various DNA population markers;
and isolating proteins and cDNAs
involved in HDL metabolism at the UW and in Seattle biotech
companies. He draws on his diverse laboratory experience
to establish a working
research environment in the high school classroom and make
his teaching relevant to the “real world.” He
also coaches basketball.
Sam
Donovan, Ph.D.,
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Instruction and Learning, Pittsburgh, PA
Sam Donovan has been involved
in many innovative projects in biology education. Some
examples include the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Student
Biology Workbench, and Beagle Investigations Return with
Darwinian Data (BIRDD). Currently, Dr. Donovan is the director
of the BEDROCK initiative (Bioinformatics Education Dissemination:
Reaching Out, Connecting and Knitting-
together), a project to increase the use of bioinformatics
in biology education. More information about BEDROCK is
available at http://www.bioquest.org/bedrock/index.html
Betsey
Dyer, Ph.D., Department
of Biology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Betsey Dexter Dyer is a professor
of biology at Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts. In
addition to genomics, her interests include field microbiology,
cell evolution, and symbiosis. She teaches genetics and
cell biology and often links those courses with Mark LeBlanc's
computer science courses to teach genomics to undergraduates.
She also co-supervises, with Dr. LeBlanc, a group of students
who write software for searching
and
annotating DNA files. Their work can be seen at http://genomics.wheatoncollege.edu
Linnea Fletcher, Ph.D., Bio-Link
Regional Director, and Biotechnology Program Director,
Austin Community College, Austin, TX
Dr. Linnea Fletcher is the department
chair for the Biotechnology Program at Austin Community
College and also South Central Regional Bio-Link Director.
For the past two years, Dr. Fletcher has been a visiting
faculty member at the Dolan DNA Learning Center at the
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, testing and assisting
with DNA Interactive. Her two-year biotechnology program
uses bioinformatics in every course and draws from a wide
range of
materials
including
Geospiza's Green Arrow Tutorials, Biology Workbench, and
materials developed by
the Dolan
DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.
This past year she partnered with Dr. Sandra Porter to
teach a Chautauqua short course on Bioinformatics for four-year
science faculty.
Martin Gollery, Associate Director
of Bioinformatics, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno,
NV
Martin Gollery is the Associate
Director of Bioinformatics at the University of Nevada
at Reno, the Chief Scientific Officer of Infoceutics, and
the CEO of Tahoe Informatics. He has been the Director
of Research at TimeLogic, a high school science teacher,
an aerospace engineer, a photographer, and a wedding singer.
His research interests include
the development of novel bioinformatics techniques to characterize
Nucleic and Amino acid sequences that do not have homologous
counterparts in existing database entries. His specialty
is modeling protein families and domains through the use
of Hidden Markov Models. Other research projects
include the TLFAM series of databases, COGfam set of Clusters
of Orthologous Genes, and the KinFam database representations
of the various Kinase families, along with the design of
microarrays and the analysis, storage, visualization and
mining of
microarray data.
Laurie Heyer, Ph.D., Department
of Mathematics Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Assistant Professor Laurie Heyer
joined Davidson College in 2000. She received her B.S.
and M.S. from the University of Texas at Arlington, and
was an Operations Research Analyst with a defense company
before beginning doctoral work at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. After receiving her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics,
she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Computational
and Experimental Genomics at the University of Southern
California. Her primary interests are in mathematical modeling
(especially of genomes and cellular processes), probability
theory and operations research. "Discovering Genomics,
Proteomics & Bioinformatics", a textbook Professor
Heyer has written with Professor Malcolm Campbell of the
Department of Biology, is published by Cold Spring Harbor
Press and Benjamin Cummings.
Uwe
Hilgert, Ph.D., BioMedia Educator and Bioinformatics
Manager, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring
Harbor, NY
Dr. Uwe Hilgert is a microbiologist with
many years of experience in college and pre-college
science education. He is a fellow of the prestigious
Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
and the National Institute for Science Education,
and works currently as science educator, web designer,
and curriculum developer for the
Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory. He has developed a course for
high school teachers and community college faculty
called "Bioinformatics in the Classroom."
Dan
Krane, Ph.D., Associate Professor Biological Sciences,
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Dan Krane (Ph.D. Penn State
University) has taught in the Biological Sciences Department
at Wright State for nearly 10 years, where he was recognized
as Teacher of the Year in 1997. His research interests
are primarily in the areas of molecular evolution and
the way that gene frequencies change over the course of
time in populations of organisms. As a graduate student
he was the first to use phylogenetic reconstruction approaches
to describe the evolutionary history of C repeats, a highly
repeated DNA sequence that accounts for more than 10% of
the rabbit genome. That work has been used as a model in
his research laboratory and others that have since characterized
analogous repeated sequences in several other mammalian
genomes. He has published over thirty peer-reviewed papers
in the areas of population genetics and molecular evolution.
Prominent in that work has been the development of RAPD-PCR
as a means of generating measures of genetic
diversity that can serve as an indicator of exposure to
environmental stressors.
In addition to his teaching,
research, and writing, Dan is
active as
a
court-appointed
expert in forensic DNA profiling, and has testified in
numerous high profile cases including the O. J. Simpson
trial and the recent case in Wellesley, MA, in which a
Harvard Medical School Professor was accused of murder.
Dr. Krane's
work to develop a comprehensive program in bioinformatics,
led him to co-author a textbook, "Fundamental
Concepts in Bioinformatics", with Micheal Raymer,
published by Benjamin-Cummings, San Francisco. His second
book, Molecular Evolution: A Primer, will be available
in the Fall
of 2004. Dr. Krane has published
numerous papers regarding forensic DNA testing and has
testified in over 40 criminal cases since 1991 as an expert
for both the prosecution and defense in the areas of population
genetics, molecular biology and bioinformatics. He is also
the president and founder of Forensic Bioinformatic Services,
Inc (bioforensics.com) where he has overseen the development
and implementation of software designed to automatically
and objectively review STR DNA testing results.
Mark LeBlanc, Ph.D., Computer
Science, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Mark LeBlanc
is a professor of computer science at Wheaton College,
Norton
Massachusetts. The suite of software modules for DNA annotation
and
analysis at http://genomics.wheatoncollege.edu was written
by undergraduates
under his supervision. His interests include the application
of linguistic analyses to the understanding of intergenic
DNA
sequences.
Loralyn Mears, Ph.D., Market Segment Manager Life Sciences, Sun Microsystems
Loralyn Mears completed a Ph.D. in molecular biology at Case Western Reserve University, an M.Sc. in physiology at the University of Toronto and an Honours B.Sc. in biology at Queen's University in Canada. She previously worked for NetGenics in a variety of roles over a period of several years and later moved onto Sun Microsystems to help launch and establish Sun in life sciences. Loralyn is currently the Life Science Segment Manager of Market Development chartered to set the strategy for ISV partnerships and initiatives that will help to grow the industry for Sun.
Jeanette
Mowery, Ph.D., Program
Director Biotechnology Lab Technician Program,
Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
Jeanette Mowery is the program
director for the nationally recognized
Biotechnology Laboratory Technician Program at the Madison
Area Technical College in Madison, WI. Dr. Mowery, a protein
biochemist with an industrial background, has helped develop
courses in protein purification and has introduced bioinformatics
tools for molecular modeling in her courses. She recently
developed a bioinformatics course (running fall 2003) and
a bioinformatics certificate program in collaboration with
Eric Knapp, a faculty colleague in the computer information
systems department of MATC.
Sandra Porter, Ph.D., Senior
Scientist, Geospiza, Inc.
Sandra Porter is a senior scientist at Geospiza, Inc., a company that
specializes in bioinformatics software and systems for
data management and analysis. Dr. Porter's research interests
include alternative splicing and polyadenylation along
with methodologies for SNP detection and sequence assembly.
Sandra has a long-standing interest in bioinformatics
and education. Before joining Geospiza, Dr. Porter ran
the biotechnology program at Seattle
Central Community College and was the Northwest
regional director for Bio-Link, an NSF-funded, Advanced
Technology Education Center. In addition to research,
Dr. Porter oversees a CCLI-EMD grant from the NSF to
develop animated tutorials
for classroom use in teaching biology with bioinformatics.
Geospiza's tutorials and other materials are available
at http://www.geospiza.com/outreach.
Gary Skuse, Ph.D., Director
of Bioinformatics, Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Skuse is Director of Bioinformatics
in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Rochester
Institute of Technology. He also provides consulting services
for a number of local, national, and international clients
in the areas of human genetics, biotechnology and information
management. Dr. Skuse, a native of Rochester, received
his B.A. in Biology from the University of Rochester and
Ph.D. in Biology (Developmental Genetics) from Syracuse
University. He followed that with postdoctoral training
in Molecular Virology at Harvard Medical School and more
than a decade on the faculty of the University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry. While at the University
of Rochester Dr. Skuse studied the genetics of a common
disease which predisposes affected individuals to tumors
of the central and peripheral nervous system, namely neurofibromatosis
type 1. As Director of Bioinformatics at RIT Dr. Skuse
coordinated the development of BS and MS degree programs
in Bioinformatics and is establishing partnerships with
biotechnology companies which will provide training and
employment opportunities for RIT students and graduates.
Christopher Smith, Ph.D., Program
Manager, Integrative BioSciences / Integrative Computational
Sciences, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of
California San Diego, CA
Christopher M. Smith, PhD.,
is a classically-trained biochemist turned computational
biologist and educator. He is the curator of the CMS Molecular
Biology Resource, and author of the Discovery Tools suite
of instructional road-maps to bioinformatics tools. He
has taught IT and bioinformatics concepts and practical
use to health professionals, researchers, and high school,
college and graduate students. His area’s of interest
include evaluation of how computational tools are utilized
in education and research, and the development of intuitive
user-interfaces and educational portals to the plethora
of online ‘bioinformatics’ tools available
today.
Kenneth
Tindall, Ph.D.,
North Carolina Biotechnology Center,
Research Triangle Park, NC
Kenneth Tindall is the President
of the North Carolina Genomics and Bioinformatics Consortium,
a partnership comprised of industry, academic, and service
organizations, which are interested in developing the infrastructure
needed to support genomic technologies. Dr. Tindall is
also the Senior Vice President
for
Science and Business
Development at the North Carolina Biotechnology
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, where he oversees the
Business
and Technology Development Program, the Education and Training
Program, and the Science and Technology Development Program.
Alex
Tropsha, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, School of Pharmacy and Natural Products
Dr. Tropsha specializes in Biomolecular
Informatics, the relationship between structures (organic
or macromolecular) and their properties (activity
or function). His research group has
developed several important methodologies and software
tools for Computer Assisted Drug Design (available
at our Web server at http://mmlin1.pha.unc.edu/~jin/QSAR
). They have also developed a new approach to
protein 3D structure analysis and prediction based
on the principles of statistical geometry
(Delaunay tessellation). This approach affords determination
of key structural and sequence motifs responsible for
protein function. Some
of our methodologies have been implemented on the Protein
Structure Workbench at http://mmlsun4.pha.unc.edu/3dworkbench.html.
Stefan Unger, Ph.D., Business Development Manager for Computational Biology in Global Education and Research,
Science and Engineering.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Dr. Stefan Unger is the Business Development Manager for Computational Biology in Sun's Global Education and Research Unit, Science and Engineering. He joined Sun in 2000.
Unger joined Syntex Research in 1974 where he built and managed the Computer Aided Drug Design Group for 16 years, authoring several patents, and publications, and designing several drugs that were tested in the clinic.
In 1990, he left Syntex to join Silicon Graphics, and held the position of Chemistry Market Manager. As VP Marketing and later as the CEO, Unger brought Oxford Molecular to the US in 1992.
While he operated his own consulting firm, Unger worked with several life science software companies such as Apple Computers and IBM. He joined Frost & Sullivan International Market Research as Director of Drug Discovery Technologies in 1999. He authored reports on combinatorial chemistry libraries and proteomics, as well as several consulting projects.
Unger held Post-Doctorial appointments at ETH, Zurich and Pomona College following receipt of his PhD in physical-organic chemistry from MIT.
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