Kimmen Sjölander Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering 308C Stanley Hall mailcode: MC 1762 (510) 642-9932 fax: 510-642-5835 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://phylogenomics.berkeley.edu/

Joined the UC Berkeley Faculty in 2001

Research Interests

My research focus is the application of computational methods for biological discovery.

Education

1997    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz

1993    B.A. Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz

Major Awards

1993    Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

1993    National Science Foundation Three-Year Graduate Research Fellowship

1996    Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology Fellowship

1996    University of California Presidential Dissertation-Year Fellowship

2003    NSF CAREER Award

2003    NSF Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering

Professional Experience

Nov. 2001 – Present    Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

1999-Nov. 2001          Principal Scientist, Protein Informatics, Celera Genomics

1997-1999                 Chief Scientist, Molecular Applications Group, Foster City, California

Selected Publications

Venter, C. et al, "The sequence of the human genome," Science, 2001 Feb 16;291(5507):1304-5

Edgar, R., and Sjölander, K., "SATCHMO: Sequence Alignment and Tree Construction using Hidden Markov models," Bioinformatics. 2003 Jul 22;19(11):1404-11. Selected by the Faculty of 1000 as a "Must Read" for Technological Advance (rating 6.0).

Nandini Krishnamurthy, Duncan Brown, Dan Kirshner and Kimmen Sjölander, "PhyloFacts: An online structural phylogenomic encyclopedia for protein functional and structural classification", Genome Biology 2006, 7:R83

Jake Gunn Glanville, Dan Kirshner, Nandini Krishnamurthy and Kimmen Sjölander, "Berkeley Phylogenomics Group web servers: resources for structural phylogenomic analysis," Nucleic Acids Research 2007

Brown DP, Krishnamurthy N, Sjölander K, "Automated Protein Subfamily Identification and Classification," PLoS Computational Biology 2007, 3(8)