Janet Kelso

Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso
	Janet Kelso speaking at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in 2015
Born	March 24, 1975
Alma mater	University of Natal; University of Cape Town; University of the Western Cape;
Awards	L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science (2004); Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2010); ISCB Fellow (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics; Computational biology;
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Thesis	The development and application of informatics-based systems for the analysis of the human transcriptome (2003)
Doctoral advisors	Winston Hide
Website	www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/group-staff.html

Janet Kelso (born 1975) is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She is best known for her work comparing DNA from previous humans (i.e. Neanderthals) with those of the present (Homo Sapiens).

A previous challenge for computational biologists was the lack of proper DNA preservation and technology to analyze the nuclear genomes of the ancient humans. This obstacle strengthened Kelso's interest in bioinformatics and initially approached the issue using the reference based method. From there, her and her research team have made advances in research towards ancient DNA.

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