Biology and Information Theory Researchers

This is a list of researchers who are interested in biology, information and coding theory. It should be useful to help organize meetings. It is by no means complete! Send me an email if you would like to be on the list or would like the current email list.

A quick guide for building a successful bioinformatics community. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 11:e1003972. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003972.

The name of each person is linked to their web site (or pages of information on them) followed by their institutional affiliation (if any) and their location. This is followed by the name of the meeting where I met them. Corrections and updates are welcome!

1. Chris Adami Michigan State University
2. Andreas G. Andreou, Johns Hopkins University. NSF Workshop 2008
3. Stefan Artmann, Institute of Philosophy & Frege Centre for Structural Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
4. Marcello Barbieri, The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology, Department of Morphology and Embryology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
5. Arieh Ben-Naim, Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem New as of 2010 Jun 01.
6. Robert C. Berwick, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
7. Martin Bier, East Carolina University, Dept. of Physics.
8. William Bialek, Princeton University. Neural decision boundaries for maximal information transmission
9. Soren Brunak, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark. New as of 2010 Jan 12.
10. Martin Bossert, Institute of Communications Engineering - Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
11. Stephen F. Bush, "My interest is in nanoscale communication networking in general, and implementing human-engineered nanoscale/molecular communication networks within the body -- using as much of the body's own signaling mechanisms as possible."
12. Peter Dittrich, Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
13. Sepideh Dolatshahi, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. email 2014 Jun 10
14. Andrew W. Eckford, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. NSF Workshop 2008
15. James Ellis, Bethesda, MD, USA. New as of 2011 May 31.
16. Ivan Erill (see Erill and O'Neill, 2009, and Notes on binding site recognition and modeling). University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Biological Sciences, Maryland, USA. New as of 2009 Dec 12.
17. Keith Farnsworth School of Biological Science, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, New as of 2013 May 13.
18. John S. Garavelli at the University of Delaware (personal) BITCS, NSF Workshop 2008
19. Ivo Grosse, (VOMBAT paper), Institut für Informatik der Martin-LutherUniversität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. google
20. Manish K Gupta, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Gujarat, India. lab New as of 2010 May 25.
21. Hanspeter Herzel, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
22. Jan Kim, The Pirbright Institute 2005 workshop: "Aspects of Self-Organization in Evolution", Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at Ohio State University
23. Vishnu Jejjala, Mandelstam Institute for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa. Former student of Tom Schneider, see lattice.tex paper
24. Prof. Dr. Bernd-Olaf Küppers, Institute of Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. Jena Life Science Forum 2009
25. Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland, Department of Physics. New as of 2010 May 23.
26. Dónal A. Mac Dónaill, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2. NSF Workshop 2008
27. Amir Manzour, email 2010 Jan 25.
28. Elebeoba E. May, University of Houston, Houston, TX Cancun 2003, NSF Workshop 2008
29. Tadashi Nakano, Molecular Communication Technology Group, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences & Institute for Academic Initiatives, Osaka University, Japan. NSF Workshop 2008
30. Michael C. O'Neill, (see Erill and O'Neill, Notes on binding site recognition and modeling). University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Biological Sciences, Maryland, USA.
31. Juergen Pahle, BIOMS / BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany; MIB, The University of Manchester, UK. Information transfer in signaling pathways: A study using coupled simulated and experimental data (doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-139). email 2014 Jun 16
32. Peter K. Rogan, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario. faculty
33. Christopher Rose, Brown School of Engineering (News), official page NSF Workshop 2008
34. Ignacio E.Sánchez, Protein Physiology Laboratory at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires - Argentina
35. Yonatan Savir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. Ph.D. student of Tsvi Tlusty. New as of 2010 Jul 11. Hopkins Workshop 2009
36. Thomas D. Schneider, yours truly, the author of this page. BITCS, MBI workshop 2005, Cancun 2003, NSF Workshop 2008, Hopkins Workshop 2009, Jena Life Science Forum 2009, Information Theory meets Biology 2010
37. Steffen Schober, Institute of Telecommunications and Applied Information Theory - TAIT - Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. Interests, see: InKoMBio. New as of 2010 Jan 15.
38. Ryan K. Shultzaberger, UC Berkeley.
39. John L. Spouge, National Center for Biotechnology Information, BITCS
40. Gary Stormo, Center for Genome Sciences, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. New as of 2010 Jan 12.
41. Peter J. Thomas, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio.
42. Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
43. Tsvi Tlusty, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. Hopkins Workshop 2009
44. Golnaz Vahedi, Genomic Signal Processing at TAMU, New as of 2010 Mar 09.
45. Chris Watkins (see also lecture, paper, abstract ), Department of Computer Science, University of London, Egham, Surrey. New as of 2009 Nov 05.
46. Manfred Weick (google, Fifty Years after Claude Shannon). New as of 2010 Jan 12. 2014 Jun 13: EMAIL CONTACT FAILED
47. Dr. Hubert P. Yockey (google link), blog. Retired in Maryland. NSF Workshop 2008 Hubert Yockey died on January 31, 2016.

• Entropy and Information in Biological Systems Apr 08, 2015 to Apr 10, 2015. This meeting is heavy on the ecology side.
  • John Baez announcement
  • NIMBioS announcement
  • IEEE Information Theory Society announcement
• Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory (14w5170) Banff, Alberta Canada, October 26, 2014 to October 31, 2014. This meeting was heavy on the molecular communications side.

• BITCS Biological Information Theory and Chowder Society (local Washington DC group with Poisson distributed meetings)
• Cancun 2003. 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Cancun, Mexico. 2003 Sep 17 - 21. Organizer: Elebeoba (Chi-Chi) May
• MBI workshop 2005: "Aspects of Self-Organization in Evolution", Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at Ohio State University
• NSF 2008 2008 NSF Workshop on Molecular Communication/ Biological Communications Technology.
  * The workshop report
  * The grand research challenges (slides)
• Hopkins Workshop 2009: Workshop on Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory held in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems March 18-20, 2009. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Call for Papers
• Jena Life Science Forum 2009: The Molecular Language of Life, Jena, Germany, June 18th to 20th 2009,
• Workshop Information Theory meets Biology (announcement PDF). 16. + 17. 02. 2010, Institute of Telecommunications and Applied Information Theory Ulm University, Germany New as of 2010 Jan 12.
• IEEE Information Theory Society Student Resources
• bionet.info-theory - discussions reconstituted at Google Groups

Thanks to Stefan Artmann for suggesting to include affiliation and location.

Schneider Lab
origin:    2008 Aug 05
updated: 2019 Oct 14