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Dr. Eric Jakobsson National Intitute of General Medical Science, National Institutes of Health Dr. Jakobsson received his Ph.D. in physics from Dartmouth College in 1969. In 2003 he became the frist director of the Center for Bioinfomatics and Computational Biology at the National Intitute of General Medical Science and is the Chair of the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative Consortium at the National Institutes of Health. He also is Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Biophysics, Bioengineering and Neuroscience at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he maintains his research laboratory in Biological Intelligence at the Bechman Institute. In 1994 he was Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Jakobsson research interests include: Computer-aided design of components for nanodevices, structure of biological membranes, structure-function relationships in biological and synthetic ion channels, computer-aided drug research, comparative genomics of microbes, use of technology to introduce quantitative approaches to biology education. |
