Philip Bourne, Ph.D.


Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, Director of Integrative Biosciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Co-director of the Protein Data Bank, an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute and the Keck Graduate Institute and the President of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is an Editor of the journal Bioinformatics, on the Advisory Board of Biopolymers, a Web Alert Editor for Current Opinions in Structural Biology and a long standing member of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health panels responsible for reviewing proposals relating to biological infrastructure. He is past chairman of the International Union of Crystallography Computing Commission IUCrCC and past chairman of the American Crystallography Association (ACA) Computing Committee.

Bourne's professional interests focus on bioinformatics and structural bioinformatics in particular. This implies algorithms, metalanguages, biological databases, biological query languages and visualization with special interest in cell signaling and apoptosis.

Personal interests are fishing, tennis, squash, walking, skiing, sports cars, motor bikes, and writing on computing trends.


Department of Pharmacology and San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA 92093-0505

Voice: (858) 534-8301
Fax: (858) 822-0873
bourne@sdsc.edu

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
  • 2001– Director of Integrative Biosciences The San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
  • 2000– Professor Dept. of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • 2000– Adjunct Professor The Keck Graduate Institute
  • 1998–2001 Senior Principal Scientist The San Diego SupercomputerCenter, USA
  • 1998– Adjunct Professor The Burnham Institute, USA
  • 1996– Adjunct Associate Professor Dept. of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • 1995– Senior Staff Scientist San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, USA
  • 1994– Senior Research Scientist (Part-time) Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1987–1995 Senior Associate Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1987–1994 Research Scientist (Part-time) Department. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1985–1986 Director, Basic Science Information Systems Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1984–1986 Director, Health Sciences Computer Facility Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1982–1986 Director, Cancer Center Computing Facility Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1981–1982 Senior Research Associate Columbia University, New York, USA
  • 1981 Visiting Scientist Adelaide University, South Australia
  • 1979–1981 Post-Doctoral Fellow Sheffield University, Sheffield, U.K.
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