Advisory Board and Editors Genomics
William A. Knaus
Director of Applied Genomics in Informatics at Center for Clinical Research in Informatics, NorthShore Research Institute Evanston, Illinois and Professor of Medicine University of Chicago. Former Evelyn Troup Hobson Professor & Founding Chair Department of Public Health Sciences, M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine (1995-2012). Director ICU Research George Washington University School of Medicine & founder, former board member and CEO of Apache Medical Systems (Inc.) 1988-2000.
Praveen K Korla
Dr. Praveen Kumar Korla is a highly accomplished bioinformatics Scientist who has made significant contributions to the fields of bioinformatics, cancer genomics, and molecular biology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Asia University, Taiwan, in 2015, following an MSc in Bioinformatics and a BSc in Biotechnology from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. With a solid educational background, Dr. Korla has excelled in his career and held esteemed positions at renowned institutions. Currently serving as a Bioinformatician at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Dr. Korla utilizes his extensive knowledge and expertise in bioinformatics, cancer genomics, and molecular biology to contribute to cutting-edge research projects. Dr. Korla's impact in the field is evident through his extensive research publications, covering diverse topics ranging from somatic mutational landscapes in melanoma development to functional and regulatory elements of cancer-associated fusion events. His dedication, expertise, and contributions continue to advance scientific understanding in bioinformatics and related fields.
Margaret J. Kovach
My primary research interest is in mammalian genomics: the identification and functional characterization of genes. In particular, I am interested in genome organization and chromatin structure and their influences on nuclear functions such as DNA replication, chromosome segregation and gene expression. This is an extremely exciting field of research that has become practical and manageable with the completion of the human and mouse genome sequencing projects.
Theerapong Krajaejun
Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Dora B. Krimer
Staff Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC. Our research group at the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB) focuses on DNA topology and chromatin organization. I have also a strong interest in gene regulation during erythroleukemia cell differentiation.
Rahul Kumar
Dr. Rahul Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is a computational biologist working in the field of computational cancer genomics.
Sushil Kumar
Dr. Sushil Sarswat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology at Anand Agricultural University, India. He undertook his Ph.D. research at the ICRISAT, India in the area of plant molecular breeding.
Dr. Sarswat's research interests include QTL mapping, GWAS, crop genetics and genomics, diversity genomics. He is also a member of the editorial board for 3Biotech (Springer).
Julia Kzhyshkowska
1997: PhD Cancer Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
1997-2001: Postdoc at the University of Regensburg
2001-2007: Junior group leader/PI and lecturer, University of Heidelberg.
2007- 2010:Senior group leader/PI and senior lecturer, University of Heidelberg
2010-2013: Professor, head of the Lab for Cellular and Molecular Biology of Innate Immunity;
2013-permanent: Professor, head of Department for Innate Immunity and Tolerance, University of Heidelberg.
Daniel J. G. Lahr
I am interested in an array of questions regarding protistan evolution and diversity. I have worked in protistology since my 1st undergraduate year, then did a masters in taxonomy of testate amoebae and a PhD in evolutionary biology, focusing on amoebozoans. My research focuses on constructing phylogenetic trees to answer broad questions in the evolutionary biology of microbes.
Barbara L Langille
I am currently an Associate Research Scientist at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre, working in the Atlantic salmon breeding and genetics division. I am tackling various research projects that involve genomically characterizing qualitative and quantitative traits. I recently finished a postdoc position at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, working on various population structure and evolutionary genetics projects. Specifically, I was focusing on mito-nuclear interactions in trans-Atlantic fish, environmental associations and population structure in cleaner fish, and structural variants.
Dr. Barbara Langille obtained a PhD from the University of Adelaide, where she investigated the regression of vision/eye genes in subterranean diving beetles, evaluated modes of speciation, and determined behavioral responses of eyeless beetles to light. Dr. Langille also obtained a MSc from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she investigated the refugial origins and hybridization of freshwater fish.
Hilmar Lapp
Aside from my role as Director of Informatics at Duke University's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), I am a PI for the NSF-funded project on creating a model and standard for phyloreferencing (http://phyloref.org), and I am a co-PI of the (also NSF-funded) Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) on ontological annotation of evolutionary phenotype observations. I am a co-founder and current Board of Directors member of Data Carpentry (http://datacarpentry.org), and I was part of the founding team for Dryad (http://datadryad.org), a digital repository for data supporting scientific publications. I have also served in the leadership of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) since its inception in 2001.
Before joining Duke's GCB, I was at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), where I initiated many of NESCent's cyberinfrastructure initiatives aimed at grass-roots building of community capacity, including the NESCent's hackathon program and Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) participation.
Denis Larkin
Reader in Comparative Genomics at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. Interests include the evolutionary and applied genomics, chromosome research and computer sciences. Associate Editor of Animal Biotechnology.