Manolis Kellis
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MENDEL LECTURES / Manolis Kellis / 2.5.2019
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1:07:14Now PlayingDr. Kellis lived in Greece and France before moving to the USA, where he studied and conducted research at MIT, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. He obtained his BS in 1999 and PhD in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor and Harvard (2003–2004). Prior to his work on computational biology, he worked at MIT and at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center on artificial intelligence, sketch and image recognition, robotics, and computational geometry. He is a professor of computer science at MIT, a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a principal investigator of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. His research focuses on disease circuitry, genetics, genomics, epigenomics, coding genes, non-coding RNAs, regulatory genomics, and comparative genomics, and
how they underpin disorders and diseases such as Alzheimerʼs disease, obesity, schizophrenia, cardiac disorders, cancer, and immune disorders.
Dr. Kellis has led several large-scale genomics projects, including the Roadmap Epigenomics project, the ENCODE project, the Genotype Tissue-Expression (GTEx) project, and comparative genomics projects in mammals, flies, and yeasts. He received the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from US President Barack Obama, the Mendel Medal for Outstanding Achievements in Science, the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award, the Boston Patent Law Association award, the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Technology Review TR35 recognition, the AIT Niki Award, and the Sprowls award for the best PhD thesis in computer science at MIT. He has authored over 245 journal publications has been cited more than 130,000 times, and obtained more than 20 multi-year grants from the NIH. His trainees hold faculty positions at Stanford, Harvard, CMU, McGill, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, and other top universities.
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