Janet Kelso

Janet Kelso

Janet Kelso speaking in 2015.
Born (1975-03-24) March 24, 1975[1]
Fields
Institutions Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Alma mater
Thesis The development and application of informatics-based systems for the analysis of the human transcriptome (2003)
Doctoral advisors Winston Hide
Notable awards

Janet Kelso is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[1][2][3][4]

Education

Kelso studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, gaining her BSc in 1997 and her MSc in 2000.[1] She received her PhD in bioinformatics in 2003, from the University of the Western Cape, mentored by Winston Hide.[5][6]

Work and research

Kelso has carried out research in comparative primate genomics and has contributed to the Neanderthal, bonobo and orangutan genome projects.[5][7][8] Since 2004, she has been Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[1]

Since 2013, she has been co-Executive Editor of Bioinformatics.[9]

Awards and honors

Kelso won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Fellowship in 2004.[10][11] With her co-authors, she was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper in Science in 2010: this paper published the draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome.[1][7] Kelso served as Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) from 2011-2013 and in 2016 was elected to serve another 3-year term as Vice President, starting in January 2017.[12] She was also elected as a Fellow of the ISCB in 2016.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Existing members of ELIXIR SAB.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,. "Dept. of Genetics | Bioinformatics | Group Staff". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Janet Kelso at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. ↑ Janet Kelso's publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. 1 2 "ISCB Newsletter 17-2". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E. (24 June 2015). "Computational Biology: Moving into the Future One Click at a Time". PLOS Computational Biology. 11 (6): e1004323. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004323.
  7. 1 2 Green, R. E.; Krause, J.; Briggs, A. W.; Maricic, T.; Stenzel, U.; Kircher, M.; Patterson, N.; Li, H.; Zhai, W.; Fritz, M. H. Y.; Hansen, N. F.; Durand, E. Y.; Malaspinas, A. S.; Jensen, J. D.; Marques-Bonet, T.; Alkan, C.; Prufer, K.; Meyer, M.; Burbano, H. A.; Good, J. M.; Schultz, R.; Aximu-Petri, A.; Butthof, A.; Hober, B.; Hoffner, B.; Siegemund, M.; Weihmann, A.; Nusbaum, C.; Lander, E. S.; Russ, C.; Novod, N.; Affourtit, J.; Egholm, M.; Verna, C.; Rudan, P.; Brajkovic, D.; Kucan, Z.; Gusic, I.; Doronichev, V. B.; Golovanova, L. V.; Lalueza-Fox, C.; de la Rasilla, M.; Fortea, J.; Rosas, A.; Schmitz, R. W.; Johnson, P. L. F.; Eichler, E. E.; Falush, D.; Birney, E.; Mullikin, J. C.; Slatkin, M.; Nielsen, R.; Kelso, J.; Lachmann, M.; Reich, D.; Paabo, S. (6 May 2010). "A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome". Science. 328 (5979): 710–722. doi:10.1126/science.1188021.
  8. ↑ Prüfer, Kay; Munch, Kasper; Hellmann, Ines; Akagi, Keiko; Miller, Jason R.; Walenz, Brian; Koren, Sergey; Sutton, Granger; Kodira, Chinnappa; Winer, Roger; Knight, James R.; Mullikin, James C.; Meader, Stephen J.; Ponting, Chris P.; Lunter, Gerton; Higashino, Saneyuki; Hobolth, Asger; Dutheil, Julien; Karakoç, Emre; Alkan, Can; Sajjadian, Saba; Catacchio, Claudia Rita; Ventura, Mario; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Eichler, Evan E.; André, Claudine; Atencia, Rebeca; Mugisha, Lawrence; Junhold, Jörg; Patterson, Nick; Siebauer, Michael; Good, Jeffrey M.; Fischer, Anne; Ptak, Susan E.; Lachmann, Michael; Symer, David E.; Mailund, Thomas; Schierup, Mikkel H.; Andrés, Aida M.; Kelso, Janet; Pääbo, Svante (13 June 2012). "The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature11128.
  9. ↑ "ISCB Newsletter 16-1". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Cape Town Student Wins National Award for Women in Science". www.panapress.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Winston Hide | Harvard School of Public Health - Academia.edu". hsph-harvard.academia.edu. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "September 12, 2016 - ISCB Announces Results of the 2016 Officer and Student Council Leadership Elections!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  13. ↑ "Feb 22, 2016: ISCB Congratulates & Introduces the 2016 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
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