Dr. Wu is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Professor of Oncology, Director of Bioinformatics Track, and Director of the Protein Information Resource (PIR). With background and experience in both biology and computer science, she has conducted bioinformatics and computational biology research for 20 years. Since 1999 she has led the development of PIR as a major public bioinformatics resource that supports genomic, proteomic and systems biology research. Dr. Wu has served on several advisory boards, including the HUPO (Human Proteome Organization) Council, the US HUPO Board of Directors, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) Scientific Advisory Board, the NIGMS Protein Structure Initiative Advisory Committee at NIH, the TeraGrid User Advisory Committee at NSF, and the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology) Board of Directors. She has also served on numerous program committees for international bioinformatics and proteomics conferences and workshops. She has published about 130 peer-reviewed papers and three books, and given more than 100 invited lectures. Her research interests include protein evolution-structure-function relationships, proteomics informatics and computational systems biology, biomedical text mining and ontology, and bioinformatics cyberinfrastructure.

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Cathy Wu home page: http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/aboutpir/wubio.shtml