People
Senior editors
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Naama Barkai
Senior Editor
Naama Barkai is a systems and computational biologist interested in how bio-molecular circuits are designed. She joined the Weizmann Institute in 1999, following a post-doc (Princeton) and graduate studies (Hebrew University) in physics. She is currently chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics, and the head of the Azrieli and Kahan Centers for Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute. In 2013, Barkai was elected to a Vallee Foundation Visiting Professorship and awarded the Abisch Frankel prize.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- modeling
- functional genomics
- yeast genetics
- morphogen gradients
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Arup K Chakraborty
Senior Editor
Arup Chakraborty is the Robert T Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at MIT. He is the founding Director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. He is also a founding steering committee member of the Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH, and Harvard, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Chakraborty was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley from December 1988 to September 2005, after which he moved to MIT. The central theme of his research since 2000 is the development and application of theoretical/computational approaches, rooted in the physical sciences, to aid the quest for mechanistic principles in immunology, and then harness this understanding to aid the design of vaccines against mutable pathogens (e.g., HIV). A characteristic of his work is the impact of his studies on experimental immunology and clinical studies (he collaborates extensively with immunologists). Arup’s work at the interface of the physical and life sciences has been recognized by honors that include an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and the EO Lawrence Memorial Award for Life Sciences. Arup is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering; he is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Expertise
- Biophysics and Structural Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Immunology
- Research focus
- computational biology
- immunology
- statistical mechanics
- signaling
- virology
- protein evolution
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Aviv Regev
Senior Editor
Aviv Regev is a computational biologist who joined the Broad Institute as a core member and MIT as a faculty member in 2006. Her work investigates how complex molecular networks function and evolve in the face of genetic and environmental changes, over time-scales ranging from minutes to millions of years. Regev received her MSc from Tel Aviv University, studying biology, computer science, and mathematics in the Interdisciplinary Program for the Fostering of Excellence, where she undertook research in both theoretical and experimental biology. She received her PhD in computational biology from Tel Aviv University. Prior to joining the Broad Institute, Regev was a fellow at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University, where she developed new approaches to the reconstruction of regulatory networks and modules from genomic data. Regev is also an associate professor in the Department of Biology at MITâ¨and director of the Klarman Cell Observatory at the Broad. Regev is the Director of the Cell Circuits Program at the Broad and a lead principal investigator for the Center for Cell Circuits at the Broad Institute, a Center of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS). Regev has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Early Career Scientist since 2009, and was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator in 2013. She is a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a Sloan fellowship from the Sloan Foundation, the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology, and the Earl and Thressa Stadtman Scholar Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).
(Image Credit: Maria Nemchuk)
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- molecular networks
- computational biology
- single cell genomics
- regulatory networks
- systems immunology
- gene regulation
- evolution
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Patricia Wittkopp
Senior Editor
Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now an Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and LSA Honors Program. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. Molecular and developmental biology, population and quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics are integrated in this work. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution and development
- gene expression
- regulatory networks
- allele-specific expression
Reviewing editors
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Timothy Verstynen
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- cognition
- decision-making
- Experimental organism
- human
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Stephen Parker
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- diabetes
- disease susceptibility
- functional genomics
- comparative genomics
- population genomics
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- rat
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Nir Ben-Tal
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Biophysics and Structural Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- structural bioinformatics
- structure, function and motion in membrane proteins
- protein interactions
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Carl T Bergstrom
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- game theory
- network science
- evolution
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Alexander Borst
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- visual processing
- systems neuroscience
- computational neuroscience
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
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Ronald L Calabrese
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- motor pattern generation
- neuronal and small networks models
- electrophysiological properties of neurons and synapse
- computational neuroscience
- Experimental organism
- leech
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Ben Cooper
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- population biology of communicable diseases
- antimicrobial resistance
- epidemiological methods
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Job Dekker
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genes and Chromosomes
- Research focus
- spatial organisation of genomes
- chromatin interaction networks
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Michael Doebeli
University of British Columbia, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- mathematical modelling
- evolution of diversity
- social insects
- ecology and evolution of microbial communities
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Sean R Eddy
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational genomics
- RNA structure
- homology search algorithms
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David D Ginty
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology and Stem Cells
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neurotrophic factors
- peripheral nervous system development
- mechanosensory neurons
- tactile processing
- spinal cord
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Mary B Kennedy
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synaptic plasticity
- synaptic regulation
- biochemical signal transduction networks
- systems biology
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Peter Latham
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- bayesian inference
- network dynamics
- neural coding
- synaptic plasticity
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Gil McVean
Oxford University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- statistical genetics
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Andrew Morris
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genes and Chromosomes
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- statistical genetics
- genetic epidemiology
- methodological development
- genome-wide association studies
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Yibing Shan
DE Shaw Research, United States
- Expertise
- Biophysics and Structural Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational structural biology
- signaling
- computational chemistry
- molecular dynamics
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Wenying Shou
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolution of cooperation and multi-level selection
- microbial ecology and evolution
- quantitative experimental biology
- theoretical biology
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Klaas Stephan
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- translational neuromodeling
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Cassidy Sugimoto
Indiana University Bloomington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- scholarly communication
- scientometrics
- gender
- science policy
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Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- bioinformatics
- structural bioinformatics
- evodevo
- cancer genomics
- text mining
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Mark CW van Rossum
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synaptic plasticity
- noise in neural systems
- the early visual system
- retina
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole normale superieure, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- gene regulatory networks
- immune system
- population genetics
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
