!!Mikhail Gelfand - Curriculum vitae
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__Degrees:__
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*2007 Professor of Bioinformatics
*1998 Doctor of Science (biology / molecular biology), State Scientific Center for Biotechnology "GosNIIGenetika", Moscow. '''Computer analysis and prediction of functional features in DNA sequences'''.
*1993 Ph.D./Candidate of Science (mathematics / biophysics), Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Puschino. '''Prediction of splicing sites and protein-coding regions in DNA of higher eukaryotes'''.
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__Current grants:__
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*2009-2011. Russian Academy of Sciences, program "''Basic Sciences for Medicine''", project "''Age-related changes in gene expression and alternative splicing''"
*2009-2011. Russian Academy of Sciences, program "''Genetic Diversity''", project "''Modeling of the interactions of an invading phage and the host's restriction-modification system''"
*2006-2010. Howard Hughes Medical Institute "''Comparative genomics and evolution of regulatory systems''" (grant 55005610, PI)
*2009-2011. Russian Foundation of Basic Research (09-04-92745) "''Regulation and evolution of cellular systems''"
*2008-2012. Russian Academy of Sciences, program "''Molecular and Cellular Biology''", project "''Comparative genomics, reconstruction and modeling, of metabolism and regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes''"
*2010-2012. Russian Foundation of Basic Research (10-04-00431) "''Co-evolution of DNA-binding proteins and their DNA motifs''"
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__Editorial boards:__
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*2009-2011. Member, Editorial Board, ''Journal of Bacteriology''
*2006-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''Molecular Biology'' (Moscow)
*2006-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''Book Series "Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology", R&CDynamics Publishers (Izhevsk, Russia)''
*2005-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''Central European Journal of Biology''
*2005-2011. Member, Editorial Board, ''Bioinformatics''
*2005-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''Biology Direct''
*2005-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''BMC Bioinformatics''
*2004-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology''
*2003-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''PLoS Biology''
*2003-present. Member, Editorial Board, ''Lecture Notes in BioInformatics (LNBI)'', Springer-Verlag
*2002-present. Member, Editorial Review Board, ''Archaea''
*2001. Guest Editor, ''Computerra'' (in Russian), special issue on Bioinformatics (#36(413))
*1997-present. Associate Editor, ''Journal of Computational Biology''
*1993. Guest Editor (with P.Pevzner), BioSystems, vol. 30 "''Computer Genetics''"