Short one for AOHUPO 2008

From Jongbhak.com

Jong Bhak is the director of KOBIC (Korean Bioinformation Center) since 2005, the representative national bioinformatics center, at KRIBB (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology). He received his BSc. Honours in biochemistry from Aberdeen University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in BioInformatics from Cambridge University in 1997. His main research areas were protein structure predictioin, sequence analysis, genome comparison, and programming module development such as Bioperl. He joined George Church lab in Harvard Medical School in 1998 as a postdoc. for DNA chip analyses. He worked with Liisa Holm from 1999 till 2001. His main research interests expanded to interactomics and network biology. In 2001, he joined MRC-DUNN as a group leader to research on ageing problems (geronto-genomics) and mitochondrial functions. In 2003, he became an associate professor at KAIST, Korea. He worked on a broad range of bioinformatics problem with interest in computer hardware, operating systems, programming, and applications.