 | Mark Gerstein |
Mark Gerstein, newly named as the ,Albert L. Williams Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, does research in the new field of bioinformatics, which involves using computers to analyze problems in the field of molecular biology.
Gerstein and his laboratory are surveying the ever-expanding information about genome sequences, macromolecules, proteins and DNA being generated by the worldwide Human Genome Project. This research involves a range of computational techniques, including database design, systematic datamining and molecular simulation. Using these tools, Gerstein and his colleagues are addressing a number of statistical questions about macromolecules relating to their physical properties, cellular function and phylogenetic distribution. This work is focused in three areas: comparative genetics, expression analysis and macromolecular geometry.
In 1999, Gerstein received a prestigious $1 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant for his work as part of the foundation's new Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research program.
After graduating from Harvard summa cum laude with a A.B. in physics in 1989, Gerstein earned a doctorate in biophysics and chemistry from Cambridge University in 1993. He did postdoctoral research in bioinformatics at Stanford University 1993-1996.
He came to Yale in 1997 as an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and since 1999, in the computer science department. He was named an associate professor in 2001, and the following year became co-director of the Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program.
In addition to the Keck Foundation grant, he has received Young Investigator Awards from the U.S. Navy, IBM, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and the Donaghue Foundation. His other awards include a Herchel-Smith Scholarship supporting his doctoral work and a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The author of numerous articles in scientific publications, Gerstein is editor of the Sequences and Topology section for the journal Current Opinion in Structural Biology. He also serves on the editorial boards of Functional and Integrative Genomics, the Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics, BioMed Central's Proteome Science and Genome Biology.
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