Peer Bork

Peer Bork
Born May 4, 1963 (1963-05-04) (age 48)
Berlin, Germany
Residence Heidelberg, Germany
Citizenship German
Nationality German
Fields Computational Biology
Institutions EMBL, MDC
Notable awards Microsoft Award, Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science

Doctor Peer Bork, PhD, is senior group leader and joint head of the Structural and Computational Biology unit at EMBL[1], a European research organization with headquarters in Heidelberg. He also holds an appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.[2] Dr. 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. His group has published more than 500 research articles in international, peer-reviewed journals,[3] among them more than 50 in Nature, Science and Cell. According to ISI (analyzing the last 10 years), Dr. Bork is currently the most cited European researcher in Molecular Biology and Genetics. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals including Science and PloS Biology, and functions as senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology.[4] Dr. Bork co-founded four biotech companies, two of which went public. More than 25 of his former associates now hold professorships or other group leader positions in prominent institutions all over the world. He received the "Nature award for creative mentoring"[5] for his achievements in nurturing and stimulating young scientists. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Royal Society and Academie des Sciences Microsoft Award for the advancement of science using computational methods and obtained a competitive "ERC advanced investigator grant".

Research

According to Google Scholar[6], his most cited peer-reviewed papers are on the human genome[7], yeast proteome[8], mouse genome[9] and Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool (SMART)[10]. More recently he has published papers on the human gut microbiome[11] and and interactive Tree of Life[12]. See a full list of publications on PubMed[13].

References

  1. ^ Bork's personal page at EMBL
  2. ^ Bioinformatics department of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
  3. ^ Publication list at the group homepage
  4. ^ About page of Molecular Systems Biology
  5. ^ Nature award for creative mentoring in science
  6. ^ ""peer bork" - Google Scholar". http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22peer+bork%22. Retrieved 23rd April 2011. 
  7. ^ Lander, Eric S.; Linton, M. .; Birren, B. .; Nusbaum, C. .; Zody, C. .; Baldwin, J. .; Devon, K. .; Dewar, K. . et al. (Feb 2001). "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome". Nature 409 (6822): 860–921. doi:10.1038/35057062. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11237011.  edit
  8. ^ Gavin, A. C.; Bösche, M.; Krause, R.; Grandi, P.; Marzioch, M.; Bauer, A.; Schultz, J.; Rick, J. M. et al. (2002). "Functional organization of the yeast proteome by systematic analysis of protein complexes". Nature 415 (6868): 141–147. doi:10.1038/415141a. PMID 11805826.  edit
  9. ^ Chinwalla, A. T.; Cook, L. L.; Delehaunty, K. D.; Fewell, G. A.; Fulton, L. A.; Fulton, R. S.; Graves, T. A.; Hillier, L. W. et al. (2002). "Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome". Nature 420 (6915): 520–562. doi:10.1038/nature01262. PMID 12466850.  edit
  10. ^ Schultz, J.; Milpetz, F.; Bork, P.; Ponting, C. (1998). "SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (11): 5857–5864. Bibcode 1998PNAS...95.5857S. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.11.5857. PMC 34487. PMID 9600884. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=34487.  edit
  11. ^ Arumugam, M.; Raes, J.; Pelletier, E.; Le Paslier, D.; Yamada, T.; Mende, D. R.; Fernandes, G. R.; Tap, J. et al. (2011). "Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome". Nature 473 (7346). doi:10.1038/nature09944. PMID 21508958.  edit
  12. ^ Letunic, I.; Bork, P. (2011). "Interactive Tree of Life v2: Online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy". Nucleic Acids Research. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr201. PMID 21470960.  edit
  13. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=peer%20bork%5Bau%5D Peer Bork publications on PubMed

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