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The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is an internationally renowned non-profit research institute dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. ISB's goal is to unravel the mysteries of human biology to identify strategies for predicting and preventing diseases such as cancer, arthritis and AIDS.

Researchers

Igor Jurisica, Principal Investigator, Ontario Cancer Institute

Computational Scientists

Christian A. Cumbaa, Research Associate, Ontario Cancer Institute

Collaborators

Dr. George DeTitta, Chief Executive Officer, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and Chairman, Department of Structural Biology
Joseph R. Luft, Principal Investigator, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Michael Malkowski, Principal Investigator, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute

New York University

Dr. Richard Bonneau: Dr. Bonneau is the technical lead on the Human Proteome Folding project. Dr. Bonneau has expertise primarily in ab initio protein structure prediction, protein folding, and regulatory network inference.

Kevin Drew, Research Assistant: Kevin is the Lead Software Engineer on the HPF project.

University of Washington

Dr. David Baker: Rosetta was developed initially in the laboratory of David Baker by a team that included a large number of scientists (now at several institutions).

Lars Malmstroem: Lars Malmstroem has worked to engineer the infrastructure (at the ISB/UW end) needed to handle the vast highly interconnected data–sets that this project will generate.

Researchers

Dr. Mark Tadross, Principal Investigator, Climate Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
Professor Bruce Hewitson, Co-Principal Investigator, Climate Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
Bode Gbobaniyi, Researcher, Climate Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
Genito Maure, Researcher, Climate Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town

Lead Technical contact

Igor Cerqueira Oliveira, Programmer/Researcher, Climate Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town

Collaborators

Professor William J. Gutowski, Collaborating Scientist, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University

Researchers

Wim Degrave, Ph.D
Antonio Basílio de Miranda, Ph.D

PhD Candidates

Marcos Catanho, M.Sc
Thomas Dan Otto, M.Sc
Ana Carolina Ramos Guimarães, M.Sc

Collaborators

Luiz Fernando Bessa Seibel, Ph.D – PUC University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
José Antonio F. de Macêdo, Ph.D – PUC University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Melissa Lemos, Ph.D – PUC University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sérgio Lifschitz, Ph.D – PUC University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Celso Ribeiro, Ph.D – PUC University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fernando Alvarez Valin, Ph.D – Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Hector Musto, Ph.D – Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

The Molecular Docking Project, led by Dr. Alessandra Carbone from the "Pierre et Marie Curie" University in Paris, is associated with specialized teams implicated in grid computing (Jean-Marie Chesnaux from CNRS: French National Center for Scientific Research), molecular modeling (Richard Lavery from CNRS), and genetic analysis of myopathies (Pascale Guicheney from INSERM, French Public Health Research Institute).

Computational biology: Dr. Alessandra Carbone team, Analytical Genomics, Analytical Genomics, INSERM Laboratory U511, Faculty of Medicine, "Pierre et Marie Curie" University, Paris.

Grid computing: Jean-Marie Chesneaux team , Informatic Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6), CNRS Laboratory UMR 7606, "Pierre et Marie Curie" University, Paris.

Myopathies: Pascale Guicheney team, INSERM Laboratory U582, Myology Institut, "Pitié-Salpetrière" Hospital, Paris.

Molecular modelling: Richard Lavery team, Laboratory of theoretical biochemistry, CNRS Laboratory UPR9080, "Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique", Paris.

The Help Defeat Cancer Project in the Foran laboratory is part of two larger projects which are funded by the National Institute of Health, and led by Dr. Foran. Researchers participating in the Help Defeat Cancer Project are:

• David J. Foran, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology & Radiology; Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Wenjin Chen, Ph.D., Associate Director of New Technology, Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Michael D. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Director, Division of Pathology Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
• Lauri A. Goodell, M.D. Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Director, Division of Hematopathology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Bonnie Huang Hall, M.D. Ph.D candidate, Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics, at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Manish Parashar, Ph.D. Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Director, The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Michael Reiss, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Associate Director for Translational Research and Director, Breast Cancer Research Program, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Lin Yang, M.S. Ph.D candidate, Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics, at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

The FightAIDS@Home Project in the Olson Laboratory is the computational component of a larger project at TSRI funded by the National Institute of Health, and led by Dr. Olson. Researchers participating in the FightAids@Home Project are:

Arthur J. Olson, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, TSRI
David S. Goodsell, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, TSRI
Rik Belew, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman of Cognitive Science, UCSD
Garrett M. Morris, D. Phil., Staff Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology, TSRI
William Lindstrom, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology , TSRI
Alexandre Gillet, Computer System Administrator
Max Chang, Bioinformatics Graduate Student (with R. Belew), UCSD

The Principal Investigator for the "Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together" project is Dr. Stan Watowich from The University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, Texas, USA). Dr. Benoit Roux from the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA) serves as Co–Principal Investigator.

Computational scientists include:
Dr. Yuqing Deng, Ph.D., Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Robert Malmstrom, Ph.D. candidate, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
Suzanne Tomlinson, Ph.D. candidate, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

• Dr. Ram Samudrala, Principal Investigator
• Dr. Ling-Hong Hung, Research Scientist and Programmer
• Michal Guerquin, Project Lead