6th International Summer School
on
Biocomplexity from System to Gene
Faculty
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Prof. Metin Akay received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981 and 1984, respectively and a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University in 1990. He has played a key role in promoting the biomedical education in the world by writing several prestigious books and editing the Biomedical Engineering Book Series published by the Wiley and IEEE Press Prof Akay is author/coauthor/editor of 14 books and giving more 50 keynote, plenary and invited talks at the international meetings including the first, second and third Latin-American Conference on Biomedical Engineering'98, 01, 04. |
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Dr. Yasemin M Akay is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University. She received her B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 1980 and M.S. and Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering from the Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA in 1991 and 1998, respectively. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Physiology and Pharmacology Departments, Dartmouth Medical School and at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University, School of Medicine. She was also an assistant editor for the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Book Series from September 2001 to May 2004 and managing editor for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering from May 2004 till present. Her current research interests include Molecular Neuroengineering, Neural Growth and Neurodegeneration. |
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Prof. David Fenstermacher is currently Executive Director of Research Informatics at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. He also directed informatics shared resource facilities for more than nine years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. During his tenure in biomedical informatics, Dr. Fenstermacher has designed and directed the implementation of several bioinformatics distributed computing systems to support basic and clinical research, including multiple institution research projects. He has also designed data management systems for more specialized projects including integrating clinical (patient and lab test data), genomics (SNP and microarray) and proteomics (2D-gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry data) data to support multiple projects focused on a single goal, modifier gene discovery. Data management systems designed by Dr. Fenstermacher have included: collection and storage of subject data; tracking and reporting of milestones for multiple studies, development of web-based forms for input, storage and retrieval of all data collected from or about subjects, customized data representations and data sharing using Grid technologies. Dr. Fenstermacher received his doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the fields of bioinformatics and biomedical informatics, Dr. Fenstermacher spent thirteen years as a molecular biologist/geneticist working on several projects, including phage display technologies, FISH for cytogenetic applications, cDNA cloning and transcriptional analyses. His background as a bench scientist brings a unique perspective to the design of computational tools to support basic and clinical research studies. |
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Prof. Peter M.A. Sloot studied chemistry and physics, did his BioComputing PhD work at the Dutch Cancer institute (NKI) with Prof. Carl Figdor and is since 2001 a full professor in Computational Sciences at the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Science of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In his research, he focuses on the theory and application of complex systems through distributed mesoscopic computer simulation; trying to understand how information progresses through various spatial and temporal scales. He is strongly interested in applying his idea’s to BioMedical systems. Internationally he is a strong advocate of the field of Computational Science: he has been the General Chair of the ICCS series of conferences on Computational Sciences since 2002 and director of the related MSc program. Up to 2007 he has co-edited over 20000 peer reviewed pages of research from this conference series in Springer’s LNCS. He is an external advisor to the UK eScience Strategic Advisory Team. He is the Editor in Chief of the Elsevier’s science journal: Future Generation of Computing Systems. He is Associate editor of The International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications. The average number of keynotes and invited lectures over the past 5 years were 8 per year; this in addition to public lectures and interviews. Over the past decade he acquired funding for 9 NWO (NSF) and KNAW (Academy of Science) projects and 8 large EU projects. Currently he leads the EU ViroLab project (www.virolab.org) and participate in 4 more EU projects and 5 NSF projects. In 1996 he received a 5 year NNV extraordinary professorship in numerical physics Peter Sloot has over 320 peer reviewed publications, among which 70 as the 1st author, 77 ISI registered peer-reviewed journal papers, 180 proceeding papers and 10 chapters in books. He owns the IPR of 2 Patents and Trademarks and supervise(d) 18 PhD theses. More information: http://www.science.uva.nl/~sloot |
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Dr. McWeeney is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics with faculty appointments in the Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). She is Director of Translational Bioinformatics for the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (an NIH CTSA award), Director of the Informatics Shared Resource for the OHSU Cancer Institute and the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Track Director of the NLM Training Program at OHSU. She currently serves as a member of the National CTSA Biomedical Informatics Steering Committee. Dr. McWeeney received her PhD in Statistical Genetics from UC Berkeley and an MSE in Computational Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Warren Ewens. Her research interests include statistical analysis of functional genomics data, network reconstruction and data integration and data cleaning. |