David Gilbert

I am Chair and Head of School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University in London, UK, and Director of the Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology (CSSB). I am also a member of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and the Centre for Intelligent Data Analysis (CIDA) at Brunel. In addition to this personal website, I also have an official website.

I am co-chair of CMSB 2012 - the 10th Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, 3-5 October 2012, held at the Royal Society, central London. Do consider submitting papers!

My current research activities centre around Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and Bioinformatics. Specifically they include methods to design, represent and analyse biochemical networks, developing computational models of protein topology and associated pattern discovery methods for protein classification, and the use of Grid technologies to support eScience for bioinformatics. The main computational approaches I use are machine learning, graph theory and concurrency analysis. I am currently interested in multiscale modelling for systems biology.

I am a member of SynBioNT - a Synthetic Biology Network for Modelling and Programming Cell-Chell Interactions, the Synthetic Biology Standards Network, the Systryp (Systems Biology of Trypanosoma) project, and the EVIMalaR (European Virtual Institute of malaria research). Previously I was co-chair of the Symposium on Biological and Chemical Informatics for Health: Foundations for Systems Biology, 26 June 2009 (Brunel University), chair of European Conference on Synthetic Biology (ECSB) II: Design, Programming and Optimisation of Biological Systems 2009, and was the co-organiser, together with Susan Rosser (Life Sciences) of the Glasgow iGEM team which scooped the Synthetic Biology iGEM 2007 competition Environment prize and a Gold Medal.

I hold a PhD in Computing from Imperial College, London where my research was into modelling concurrent systems using computational logic, and was a member of the team which developed the PARLOG parallel logic programming system. I was an EPSRC Research Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute in 1998, and a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2000) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UCL when I worked on the design and development of the TOPS protein topology computational system. I have served as Chair of the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Committee of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (2007-2009).

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