EIC Editorial: Introducing New Associate Editors

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Teresa Przytycka receiveed the degree of magister from the Department of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer Science, University of Warsaw, Poland, and ...
IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS, VOL. 6, NO. 3, JULY-SEPTEMBER 2009

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EIC Editorial: Introducing New Associate Editors Marie-France Sagot

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N this issue, I announce the retirement of Ron Shamir who has been on the inaugural editorial board of TCBB since the beginning in 2004 and has contributed so much to make TCBB function and thrive. I would like to express my great appreciation for his service and support. As TCBB continues to grow, we need to strengthen expertise in areas that keep witnessing an important increase in their number of submissions. This will allow us to minimize the burden put on volunteers who serve generously on IEEE journals. I am therefore happy to welcome the addition of Doctor Teresa Przytycka, investigator at the NCBI, NLM, NIH Computational Biology Branch, USA, and Professor Roded Sharan from Tel Aviv University, Israel, to the editorial board. I am very much looking forward to working with them alongside the remaining Associate Editors in the next years.

Marie-France Sagot Editor-in-Chief

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Teresa Przytycka receiveed the degree of magister from the Department of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer Science, University of Warsaw, Poland, and the PhD degree from the Department of Computer Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada. Subsequently, she pursued a career in computer science (theory of algorithms) and graph theory, publishing numerous research papers in these areas. After obtaining the Sloan DEO Fellowship, awarded to computer science /mathematics researchers entering the field of computational biology, she turned her research interest towards computational molecular biology. She started her computational biology career in the laboratory of Dr. George Rose, Johns Hopkins University. While at Johns Hopkins, she was awarded a Burroughs Welcome Fellowship in Computational Biology and an US National Institutes of Health (NIH) K01 grant, a mentored transitional (Computer Science to Life Sciences) award. In 2003, she was offered an investigator position at the National Center of Biotechnology Information, NIH. She is currently heading a research group “Algorithms and Graph Theory for Computational and Systems Biology.” Her current research interests include computational analysis of biological networks, predicting protein-protein and domain-domain interactions, evolutionary and comparative genomics, and phylogeny analysis. Roded Sharan received the MSc degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and the PhD degree from the School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel. The last years of his doctoral studies in the lab of Professor Ron Shamir and later his postdoctoral research work with Professor Richard Karp at the University of California, Berkeley, shaped his interests in bioinformatics, especially in the field of biological networks. He was then offered a senior lecturer position at Tel Aviv University, to where he returned as an Alon fellow. Subsequently, he was awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Career Development Chair and the Krill prize from the Wolf Foundation. Today, he is an associate professor at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and heads a research group that focuses on the analysis of biological networks. Professor Sharan has published numerous scientific papers in bioinformatics and graph algorithms. His current research interests include comparative and integrative analysis of biological networks, systems medicine, and transcriptional regulation.

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