Dr. Julie Segre received her B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics from Amherst College, where she now serves on the board of trustees. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Eric Lander, Ph.D., and the newly formed genome center. Dr. Segre then performed postdoctoral training with Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., an expert in skin biology, at the University of Chicago.
Liu is a statistical physicist by training, with expertise in analytical calculation, modeling and data analysis. His Ph.D. research encompassed a broad range of topics from statistical to condensed matter and biological physics. Liu received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2009. His thesis focused on the study of an unexpected universal behavior in disordered magnetic systems. This work has been featured in Europhysics News and selected for the Europe Physics Letter — Best of 2009 Collection.
Eran Segal is a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He works on developing quantitative models for all levels of gene regulation, including transcription, chromatin, and translation. He gained his BA in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University in 1998 and his PhD from Stanford University in 2004 advised by Daphne Koller. In 2007 he was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology. In 2011 he was made a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Pavel Pevzner holds the Ronald R. Taylor Chair in Computer Science, and leads the department's Bioinformatics Laboratory. He joined the UCSD faculty in 2000, following five years in the University of Southern California's Mathematics and Computer Science departments. From 1992-95, he was an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he was affiliated with both the Biotechnology Institute and the Institute for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. From 1990-92 Pevzner was a postdoctoral researcher at USC.
Greg Gibson is a professor of Biology and Director of a new Center for Integrative Genomics at Georgia Tech. His group conducts systems genomics research, building on 15 years of quantitative genetic research in Drosophila, but now with a focus on human genomics. His group is primarily interested in the interaction between genotype and environment and the joint influences of these sources of variation on disease susceptibility and the evolution of disease.