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Bernard Moret
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Laboratory for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Professor
PhD (U. Tennessee, 1980)
nationality: US and Swiss dual citizen
web site: http://lcbb.epfl.ch
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office(s):
INJ230
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 31391,35637,31394
fax: +41216937555
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BIOGRAPHY
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Bernard M.E. Moret was born in Vevey, Switzerland, received his baccalauréats in Latin-Greek and Latin-Mathematics, then his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from EPFL. After working for 2 years for Omega and Swiss Timing on the development of real-time OS for sports applications, he left for the US. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the U. of Tennessee in 1980 and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM) that fall. He served as Chairman of the department from 1991 till 1993 and eventually retired in summer 2006 to join the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. (You can read about his work at UNM on his (archived) personal and laboratory web pages at UNM.) He was also appointed group leader for phylogenetics at the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB).
He founded the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) and served as its Editor-in-Chief for 7 years; he also helped found the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), where he served as Associate Editor until 2008. He founded the annual Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) and chairs its steering committee, and he serves on the steering committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX). Until summer 2008, he chaired the Biodata Management and Analysis (BDMA) study section of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). He led a team of over 50 biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in the CIPRES (Cyber Infrastructure for Phylogenetic Research) project, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for US$ 12 million over 5 years. He has published around 70 papers in computational biology in the last 7 years, under funding from the US NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the IBM Corporation, the US NIH, the Swiss NSF, and SystemsX.ch. His Erdős number is 2 and his current h- and g-indices are, respectively, 32 and 52.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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B. M. E. Moret and T. Warnow.
Advances in phylogeny reconstruction from gene order and content
data.
In E. A. Zimmer and E. H. Roalson, editors, Molecular
Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data, Part B, volume 395 of
Methods in Enzymology, pages 673-700. Elsevier, 2005.
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N. D. Pattengale, E. J. Gottlieb, and B. M. E. Moret.
Efficiently computing the Robinson-Foulds metric.
J. Comput. Biol., 14(6):724-735, 2007.
special issue on best papers from RECOMB'06.
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M. Marron, K. M. Swenson, and B. M. E. Moret.
Genomic distances under deletions and insertions.
Theor. Comput. Sci., 325(3):347-360, 2004.
Special issue on best papers from COCOON'03.
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D. A. Bader, B. M. E. Moret, and M. Yan.
A linear-time algorithm for computing inversion distances between
signed permutations with an experimental study.
J. Comput. Biol., 8(5):483-491, 2001.
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ALL PUBLICATIONS
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For a list of publications since 1990, see here.
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CURRENT WORK
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His main research interests are algorithm design and high-performance algorithm engineering, particularly as they apply to computational biology and bioinformatics. Current projects include:- Models of genome evolution and algorithms for their use in phylogenetic reconstruction and comparative genomics.
- Models of reticulate evolution and algorithms for their use in phylogenetic reconstruction.
- Fast and accurate algorithms for large-scale (Tree of Life) phylogenetic reconstruction.
- Models and algorithms to study the evolution of regulatory networks.
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CURRENT INT'L DUTIES
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- Chair, Steering Committee for Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI).
- Member, Steering Committee for SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX).
- Organizer, "Computational Challenges and Approaches in Comparative Genomics", session and tutorial at 15th Pacific Symp. on Biocomputing PSB'10, Hawaii.
- Member, Program Committees for:
6th Int'l Symp. Bioinformatics Res. & Appls. ISBRA'10 (Storrs),
14th Conf. on Research in Comput. Mol. Bio. RECOMB'10 (Lisbon, Portugal).
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CONFERENCE CALENDAR
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For a list of upcoming conferences in my area, see here.
For a comparison of the impact of the various conferences
in bioinformatics and computational biology, see here.
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Full Professor 