Intercollegiate Program in Bioinformatics

Chair Charles DeLisi
Arthur G. B. Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering

Directors

Scott Mohr
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Gary Benson
Associate Professor, Director of IGERT Program

Faculty

Solomon Amar
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine; Professor of Periodontology & Oral Biology; Research Associate Professor of Biochemistry.

Karen N. Allen
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
BS, Tufts University; PhD, Brandeis University

Calin Belta
Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering
BS, Universitatea Tehnica “GH.Asachi”, Iasi, Romania; MS, Universitatea Tehnica, Louisiana State University, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Gary Benson
Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences
BS, MS, PhD, University of Maryland

Cynthia Bradham
Assistant Professor of Biology
PhD, University of North Carolina

Charles R. Cantor
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biochemistry, School of Medicine. Director, Center for Advanced Biotechnology
AB, Columbia University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

James J. Collins
Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
AB, College of the Holy Cross; PhD, University of Oxford (England)

Geoffrey M. Cooper
Chair, Department of Biology; Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD, University of Miami

Charles DeLisi
Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering
BA, City College of New York; PhD, New York University

Lindsay Farrer
Professor of Medicine, Neurology and Public Health; Chief, Genetics Program; Director, Genetic Epidemiology Center
PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine

John Finnerty
Assistant Professor of Biology
PhD, University of Chicago

Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
MSc, PhD, Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (Russia); ScD, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)

Hwai-Chen Guo
Associate Professor of Biophysics, School of Medicine
BS, National Taiwan University (Taiwan); PhD, Cornell University

Mayetri Gupta
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
MS, Indian Statistical Institute; PhD, Harvard University

Ulla Hansen
Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
AB, Oberlin College; PhD, Harvard University

Simon Kasif
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
PhD, University of Maryland

Eric Kolaczyk
Director, Statistics Program; Associate Professor of Math & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences
PhD, Stanford University

Mark Kon
Professor, Department of Mathematics
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lev Levitin
Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Edward L. Loechler
Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences (molecular biology)
BS, Ohio State University; PhD, Brandeis University

Kim McCall
Associate Professor of Biology
PhD, Harvard University

Scott C. Mohr
Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
BA, Williams College; AM, PhD, Harvard University

Richard Myers
Professor of Neurology (Neurogenetics), School of Medicine
MEd, Georgia State University; MA, PhD, Georgia State University

John C. Samuelson
Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
MD, PhD, Harvard University

Scott E. Schaus
Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
BA, Boston University; PhD, Harvard University

Paola Sebastiani
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
PhD, University of Rome (Italy)

Daniel Segre
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
PhD, Wiezmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Cassandra L. Smith
Deputy Director, Center for Advanced Biotechnology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering; Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, School of Medicine
BA, MS, West Virginia University; PhD, Texas A&M University

Temple Smith
Director, Biomolecular Engineering Research Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering
BS, Purdue University; PhD, University of Colorado

Avrum Spira
Instructor in Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine
MD, McGill University (Canada)

H. Eugene Stanley
Professor, Department of Physics
PhD, Harvard University

John E. Straub
Chair, Department of Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
BS, University of Maryland; PhD, Columbia University

Dean R. Tolan
Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
BA, University of Colorado; PhD, University of California, Davis

Thomas Tullius
Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
BS, University of California at Los Angeles; PhD, Stanford University

Sandor Vajda
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
MSc, Gubkin Institute (Russia); MSc, Eötvös Lorand Tudományegyetem (Hungary); PhD, Hungarian Academy of Science

David J. Waxman
Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
BA, Queens College, City University of New York; AM, PhD, Harvard University

Adrian Whitty
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Yu (Brandon) Xia
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
BS, Peking University; PhD, Stanford University

Affiliated Faculty

Andy Baxevanis
Deputy Scientific Director, Director, Computational Genomics Program, Nathonal Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Robert Berwick
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
AB, Harvard College; SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gyan Bhanot
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BSc, University of Baroda (India); MSc, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India); MA, SUNY at Stony Brook; PhD, Cornell University

Christopher Bouton
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BA, Amherst College; PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Vladimir Brusic
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
PhD, La Trobe University (Australia)

Joel H. Graber
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BS, Michigan Technological University; MS, PhD, Cornell University

Kamalakar Gulukota
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BS, MB, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (India); MBA, Auburn University; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Enoch S. Huang
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
AB, Princeton University; PhD, Stanford University

Minoru Kanehisa
Visiting Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
DSc, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Eugene Koonin
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
Biology Diploma (equiv. of MSc), PhD, Moscow State University (Russia)

David Landsman
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BSc, PhD, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

Joseph Lehar
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BA, Brandeis University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stan Letovsky
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BA, Cornell University; MSc/Phil, PhD, Yale University

Jill Mesirov
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
AB, University of Pennsylvania; MA, PhD, Brandeis University

Alan Perelson
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

John Quackenbush
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Richard Roberts
Distinguished Scientist and Research Scholar of Bioinformatics

John Spouge
Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BSc, MD, University of British Columbia (Canada); PhD, Oxford University (England)

Zhiping Weng
Director and Professor, Program in Bioinformatics & Integrative Biology
BS, University of Science & Technology of China; PhD, Boston University

Itai Yanai
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, College of Engineering
BA, BS, PhD, Boston University