Mark Gerstein is the Albert L Williams professor of Biomedical
Informatics at Yale University. He is co-director the Yale
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, and has appointments
in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and the
Department of Computer Science. He received his AB in physics summa
cum laude from Harvard College in 1989 and his PhD in chemistry from
Cambridge in 1993. He did post-doctoral work at Stanford and took up
his post at Yale in early 1997. Since then he has received a number of
young investigator awards (e.g. from the Navy and the Keck foundation)
and has published appreciably in scientific journals. He has >250
publications in total, with a number of them in prominent journals,
such as Science, Nature, and Scientific American. (His current
publication list is at http://papers.gersteinlab.org .) His research
is focused on bioinformatics, and he is particularly interested in
large-scale integrative surveys, biological database design,
macromolecular geometry, molecular simulation, human genome
annotation, gene expression analysis, and data mining.