A series of speakers sharing their ground breaking science and their journeys as women in a predominantly male subject area. Do You Think You Want to Be a Scientist? Comments from Women in Bioinformatics for High School Students

A series of speakers sharing their ground breaking science and their journeys as women in a predominantly male subject area.

Understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for the regulation of the transcriptome present in eukaryotic cells is one of the most challenging tasks in the postgenomic era. In this regard, alternative splicing (AS) is a key phenomenon contributing to the production of different mature transcripts from the same primary RNA sequence. As a plethora of different transcript forms is available in databases, a first step to uncover the biology that drives AS is to identify the different...

Dr. Helen M. Berman, Director of the Protein Database (PDB), Rutgers University. Dr. Berman is internationally renowned for her development of protein and nucleic acid databases. Her research interest is in the application of Bioinformatics to protein structure.

Janet Thornton, Ph.D. Head of European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Dr. Thornton is a leading expert in relating protein sequence to structure and function. She has worked extensively in knowledge-based approaches to sequence analysis. Dr. Thornton is a member of the Royal Society

Soshana Wodak, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Centre for Computational Biology (CCB), The Hospital for Sick Children Professor, Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto Canada Research Chair, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Sonia Longhi, Ph.D. Permanent Senior Scientist, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marseille, France

Kimmen Sjolander, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering University of California - Berkeley

Patricia Babbitt, Ph.D. Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California - San Francisco

Fran Lewitter, Ph.D. Director of the Bioinformatics and Research Computing Department, Whitehead Institute, MIT