Prof. Sorin Istrail

POSTDOCS, GRADUATE STUDENTS, SOFTWARE ENGINEER POSITIONS AVAILABLE
The Istrail Lab currently has openings for two postdoctoral researchers, one software engineer, graduate students, as well as undergraduate internships for both biology and computer science students . Interested parties should contact Sorin Istrail at 401-863-6196 or sorin@cs.brown.edu.

Research funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Areas of research

• Computational Molecular Biology
• Medical Bioinformatics
• Statistical Physics and Complex Systems
• Combinatorial Algorithms
• Computational Complexity

Society Memberships

• American Society of Human Genetics
• American Mathematical Society
• Association of Computing Machinery
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• European Society for Theoretical Computer Science
• The International Society for Computational Biology
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Keynote and Distinguished Lectures given by Sorin

• Distinguished Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 2008
• Distinguished Lecture, Tufts University, 2007
• Distinguished Lecture, Leiden University, Amsterdam, 2007
• Distinguished Lecture, Lipari School, Italy, 2006
• Keynote Lecture, NIH Graduate Student Symposium, Washington DC, MD, 2006
• Distinguished Lecture, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2006
• Romania Lectures, Lectures of Genomic Regulatory Networks and SNPs and the Human Genome, (four lectures), University Al.I.Cuza Iasi and University of Bucharest, Iasi and Bucharest, 2005
• Spain Lectures, ”Logic Functions of the Genomic Regulatory Code” (three lectures), University of Sevilla, Sevilla, 2005
• George Washington University Medical School Lectures: 2002 – 2004 five lectures in two years in the ”Macromolecular Interactions Proteins” course as well as two general audience lectures.
• Medical Bioinformatics Course, George Washington University Medical School, Department of Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, Fall 2004
• Taiwan Lectures, ”From Genomics to Protein Folding: the Most Beautiful Algorithms” (six lectures), Academica Sinica Summer School on Bioinformatics, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2001 (audience of 800 students)
• Puerto Rico Lectures, ”Computational Mathematics, Computational Biology, Computational Physics, Computational Chemistry, and Computational Materials” (five lectures), Mayaguez, February 25 – March 1, 2000
• University of New Mexico Lectures: Course-Introduction to Computational Biology 1996 (co-taught with Mary Anne Nelson), Introduction to Computational Biology 1998, Introduction to Computational Biology 1999, Lipari Island Lectures, ”Algorithms for Protein Folding Prediction,” (three lectures), Lipari, Italy, June 20-29, 1999
• UCSF Lectures, ”Statistical Physics and Computer Science” (six lectures), University of California San Francisco, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Ken Dill Lab), April 1999
• Sandia Lectures, ”The rise and fall of the search for exactly solvable three-dimensional (statistical mechanics) Ising models” (eight lectures) Fall 1999