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Ashlee Earl is a Research Scientist and Group Leader of Bacterial Genomics at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Within the Broad Institute’s Genome Center for Infectious Diseases, Earl is working to understand the relationship between microbes and human health including how multi-drug resistant pathogens emerge and spread.

Bork is the Head of Unit, Senior Scientist and Strategic Head of Bioinformatics and he holds an appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. Bork received his PhD in Biochemistry (1990) and his Habilitation in Theoretical Biophysics (1995). He works in various areas of computational biology and systems analysis with a focus on function prediction, comparative analysis and data integration.

Koonin's principal research goals include the comparative analysis of sequenced genomes and automatic methods for genome-scale annotation of gene functions.[3] His research also investigates the application of comparative genomics for phylogenetic analysis, reconstruction of ancestral life forms and building large-scale evolutionary scenarios, as well as mathematical modeling of genome evolution.[4][5][6] Koonin's research also investigates computational study of the major transitions in the evolution of life (such as the origin of eukaryotes), the evolution of eukaryotic signalin