Eugene W. Myers

Gene Myers has been a group leader at the Janelia Farm Research Campus since its inception in 2005. In June of this year he will join a growing group of computaional biologists in Dresden to be the founding director of a new Systems Biology Center that is being built as part of an extension of the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG). Gene came to the JFRC from UC Berkeley where he was on the faculty of Computer Science from 2003 to 2005. He was formerly Vice President of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics for four years where he and his team assembled the sequences of the Drosophila, Human, and Mouse genomes. Prior to that Gene was on the faculty of the University of Arizona for 17 years and he received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1981.

Dr. Myers general research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms for problems in computational molecular biology, discrete pattern matching, and computer graphics. He is best known for the development of BLAST -- the most widely used tool in bioinformatics, and for the paired-end whole genome shotgun sequencing protocol and the associated assembler he developed at Celera that delivered the fly, human, and mouse genomes in a three year period. His current interest is in developing algorithms and software for the automatic interpretation of images produced by light and electron microscopy of stained samples with a particular emphasis on building 3D and 4D “atlases” of brains, developing organisms, and cellular processes.

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