Steven Brenner

 

"Progress and Aspirations of the Genome Commons"

Biography

Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Affiliated Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Affiliated Professor, Department of Bioengineering

A.B. 1992. Harvard University
M.Phil. 1994. University of Cambridge
Ph.D. 1997. University of Cambridge and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Visitor. 1997. Japan National Institute of Bioscience
Sloan/DOE Postdoctoral Fellow. 1999. Stanford University

2001 Searle Scholar
1998-2001 & 2002-2006 Director, International Society for Computational Biology
2001-2006 Founding Director, Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and Founding Coordinator, The Bioperl Project
2003 Sloan Research Fellow
2007-2008 Miller Professor
2008 AAAS Fellow
2010 ISCB Overton Prize awardee