Burkhard Rost

Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost
	Burkhard Rost speaking at ISMB
Born	July 11, 1961; Germany
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg
Known for	Presidency of ISCB; Organisation of ISMB, CASP; Predictprotein; combination of evolutionary information and machine learning;
Spouse	Karima Djabali
Awards	Alexander von Humboldt Professor, ISCB Fellows Award
	Scientific career
Fields	Machine learning; Evolution; Protein structure prediction; Protein function prediction; Sequence analysis; Bioinformatics;
Institutions	Technische Universität München (TUM); Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU); Columbia University; University of Heidelberg; European Molecular Biology Laboratory;
Thesis	Neural networks and evolution - advanced prediction of protein secondary structure (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Chris Sander
Website	www.rostlab.org

Burkhard Rost is a scientist leading the Department for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Rost chairs the Study Section Bioinformatics Munich involving the TUM and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in Munich. From 2007-2014 Rost was President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

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