Advisory Board and Editors Computational Biology
Mikhail S Gelfand
Vice-Director for Science at the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems. Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and Higher School of Economics. Member of Academia Europaea. Recipient of the 2007 Baev Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of Editorial Boards of PeerJ and Biology Direct.
Joshy George
Associate Director fo Computational Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, CT, USA. Previously worked at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne Australia and at the Genome Institute of Singapore.
Noushin Ghaffari
Dr. Noushin Ghaffari is a senior member of the bioinformatics team at Texas A&M AgriLife Genomics and Bioinformatics (TxGen), where she is involved in various projects from planning experiments to data analysis. She is also focused on method development and application projects that will impact scientific community. Her research activities have encompassed various areas of computational biology and have enabled her to study and learn more about the characteristics of multiple species. Furthermore, she intensely pursues her theoretical interests focusing on applications of mathematics in solving biological problems. Dr. Ghaffari has led numerous genome and transcriptome assembly projects for novel species such as cattle tick, gene discovery research though RNA-Seq studies, studying microbiome communities via metagenomics research and etc. Dr. Ghaffari has vast teaching experiences and continues to educate Texas A&M faculty/students/researcher on high performance computing, data analysis and bioinformatics.
Joseph J Gillespie
Dr. Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist with broad interests in organismal and molecular evolution. The major focus of his current research is deciphering the mechanisms by which obligate intracellular species of Rickettsiales (Alphaproteobacteria) invade, survive and replicate within eukaryotic cells.
In research funded by the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Gillespie utilizes phylogenetics, comparative genomics and bioinformatics to guide experimental research on various pathogenic species of Rickettsia and their associated arthropod vectors. His early research resulted in the reclassification of Rickettsia species and the identification of many lineage-specific pathogenicity factors. Through years of intense scrutinization of dozens of diverse rickettsial genomes, Dr. Gillespie and colleagues have described a large, dynamic mobilome for Rickettsia species, resulting in the identification of integrative conjugative elements as the vehicles for seeding Rickettsia genomes with many of the factors underlying obligate intracellular biology and pathogenesis. Via an iterative process of genome sequencing, phylogenomics, bioinformatics, and classical molecular biology and microbiology, Dr. Gillespie continues to lead and assist research projects on the characterization of rickettsial gene and protein function, as well as the description of cell envelope glycoconjugates.
Aristóteles Góes-Neto
Aristóteles Góes-Neto is B.Sc. in Biology, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil (1994), Ph.D. in Botany, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil (2001) and PostDoc in FIOCRUZ, Brazil (2012). Currently, he is Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Microbiology of the Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is a professor of the Postgraduate Programs of Microbiology (UFMG) and Bioinformatics (UFMG) and collaborator professor of the Postgraduate Programs of Botany (since 2003) and Biotechnology (since 2005) of UEFS and leader of Research Group (CNPq): Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi. He is CNPq Researcher (level 2) and member of the Evaluation Committee of the Area of Biotechnology (CAPES). His research lines include Fungal Biology, Biotechnology and (Meta)Omics.
Mahesh Gokara
Dr. Mahesh Gokara is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Mayo Clinic. He has a Ph.D biochemistry with an experience of over 10 years in multidisciplinary research areas including biochemistry, biophysics and bioinformatics.
Leonardo L Gollo
Leonardo is a Senior Research Fellow with training in Neuroscience and Physics. He works on Neuroscience, Computational Biology, Connectomics, and Complex Systems. His research focuses on computational and mathematical models of brain function.
Bruno Duarte Gomes
My research includes studying human and non-human primates visual system using psychophysics, visual evoked potentials and cortical extracellular recordings. Currently my focus are cortical areas related to visual attention in non-human primates.
Education:
Ph.D., Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Federal University of Para
M.Sc., Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Federal University of Para
B.Sc., Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para
Shawn M Gomez
Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-CH and NCSU and Department of Pharmacology at UNC-CH. Previous Florence Gould Scholar and Pasteur Foundation Fellow. Current research interests in systems and synthetic biology, bioimage informatics, and network science applied to biology. Broader interests in translational medicine and the fostering of innovative solutions to problems in healthcare.
Juro Gregan
- associate professor, Dept. of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
- group leader, MFPL, Dept. of Chromosome Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- postdoctoral researcher, IMP (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria (K. Nasmyth lab)
- postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK (S. Kearsey lab)
- PhD study, Dept.of Microbiology and Genetics, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (R. Schweyen lab)
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Professor of Computational Biology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester. Manages the miRBase database of microRNA sequences. Founded the Rfam RNA families database. Interested in RNA structure, function and evolution.
Arthur Gruber
Prof. Arthur Gruber received his Bachelor’s in Veterinary Medicine, PhD in Biochemistry, Associate degree in Animal Pathology from the University of São Paulo. He is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, affiliated member, European Viral Bioinformatics Center, and member of the directory board, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C). Prof. Gruber is PI of the Viral Genomics and Bioinformatics research group, developing bioinformatics methods and tools for viral detection, classification and discovery.