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Donna Slonim
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Genetics, Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacogenomics and Engineering.
InstitutionsTufts University
ThesisLearning from imperfect data in theory and practice (1996)
Doctoral advisorRonald Rivest
Websitehttps://www.cs.tufts.edu/~slonim

Donna Slonim is a Professor of Computer Science[1] at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments in the Tufts University School of Medicine and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.[2]

Education[edit]

Slonim is a graduate of Yale University. She received her M.S from the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was in the Theory of Computation Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Her doctoral thesis, "Learning from imperfect data in theory and practice" ,[3] was advised by Prof. Ronald L. Rivest,[4] and included collaborative work with the mapping group at the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research[5] on algorithmic challenges for the Human Genome Project.[6][7][8]

Early Career[edit]

After graduate school, Slonim joined the research staff of the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research, leading the mapping informatics group and designing methods for analyzing data from emerging expression microarray technology. She was a leading contributor to pioneering work on cancer classification[9][10][11] and microarray data interpretation .[12][13] Slonim went on to join Genetics Institute (later incorporated into Wyeth Research) as a principal scientist, working on drug discovery and clinical pharmacogenomics.[14][15][16]

Academic Career, Research, and Professional Roles[edit]

Currently, Slonim is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University, with a secondary appointment in the faculty of Genetics, Molecular, and Cellular Biology at the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Her research focus includes computational biology, particularly developing methods for precision medicine in applications to human developmental disorders.

Slonim has held many professional positions in the bioinformatics field. She has served on the Scientific Advisory Boards(SAB) of the Gene Ontology[17] and the Mouse Genome Database, and on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Scientific Counselors[18] . She also served two terms on the International Society for Computational Biology(ICSB) Board of Directors .[19] She has served as Proceedings Co-chair for both Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology(ISMB),[20] and the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB),[21] two key bioinformatics conferences. She has also served in associate editor or editorial board member roles for PLOS Computational Biology,[22] ACM/IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,[23] the Journal of Biomedical Informatics,[24] and Biomed Central (BMC) Bioinformatics.[25]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science". Tufts University Computer Science Department. Tufts University. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  2. ^ "Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences". Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Tufts University. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  3. ^ "Learning from imperfect data in theory and practice". MIT Libraries. Massachussets Institute of Technology. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  4. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University, Department of Mathematics. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  5. ^ "Broad Institute History". Broad Institute. February 28, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
  6. ^ Hudson, T J (1995). "An STS-based map of the human genome". Science. 270(5244) (5244). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1945–1954. Bibcode:1995Sci...270.1945H. doi:10.1126/science.270.5244.1945. PMID 8533086. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  7. ^ Slonim, D; Kruglyak, L; Stein, L; Lander, E (1997). "Building human genome maps with Radiation hybrids". Journal of Computational Biology. 4 (4). Mary Ann Libert Inc.: 487–504. doi:10.1089/cmb.1997.4.487. PMID 9385541. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  8. ^ Laura, Johannes (December 22, 1995), "Detailed Map of the Genome Is Now Ready", Wall Street Journal, pp. B1 &B11, ProQuest 1023893767, retrieved June 22, 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  9. ^ Golub, T.R; Slonim, D.K; Tamayo, P. (1999). "Molecular classification of cancer: Class discovery and class prediction". Science. 286(5439) (5439): 531–537. doi:10.1126/science.286.5439.531. PMID 10521349. Retrieved May 24, 2024..
  10. ^ "An unkiller app", The Economist, pp. 93–94, October 21, 1999, retrieved June 22, 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  11. ^ Slonim, Donna. "Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  12. ^ Tamayo, Pablo; Slonim, Donna; Mesirov, Jill (March 16, 1999), "Interpreting patterns of gene expression with self-organizing maps: Methods and application to hematopoietic differentiation", PNAS, 96 (6): 2907–2912, Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.2907T, doi:10.1073/pnas.96.6.2907{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  13. ^ ""Self Organizing Maps" Help Analyze Thousands of Genes" (Press release). EurekAlert!: American Association for the Advancement of Science. March 16, 1999. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  14. ^ O'Toole, M; Janszen, DB; Slonim, DK (October 2005), "Immunotherapy in Pre-immunization Gene Expression Patterns of Blood", Archives of Neurology, 62 (10): 1531–1536, doi:10.1001/archneur.62.10.1531, PMID 16216935{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  15. ^ Burczynski, M. E; Twine, Natalie; Dukart, Gary (February 2005), "Transcriptional profiles in peripheral blood mononuclear cells prognostic of clinical outcomes in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma", Clinical Cancer Research, 11 (3): 1181–1189, doi:10.1158/1078-0432.1181.11.3, PMID 15709187{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  16. ^ Rosenberg, R. N (October 2005), "Immunization with β-Amyloid(1-42) protein for Alzheimer disease: genomics predicts the response", JAMA, 294 (18): 2352–2353, doi:10.1001/jama.294.18.2352{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  17. ^ "2019 Berkeley SAB Meeting Logistics". Gene Ontology Consortium Wiki. Gene Ontology. October 2019.
  18. ^ "Meeting minutes of the Board of Scientific Counselors" (PDF). National Library of Medicine. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
  19. ^ "ISCB Past Leadership". International Society for Computational Biology. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  20. ^ "ISMB 2020 list of Conference Chairs". International Society for Computational Biology. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  21. ^ "ACM BCB 2013 Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials" (PDF). University at Buffalo. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
  22. ^ "PLOS Computational Biology Editorial Board". PLOS Computational Biology. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  23. ^ Williams, Micheal (January 1, 2004). "Introduction of New Associate Editors". Association for Computing Machinery. 1 (1): 4–12. doi:10.1109/TCBB.2004.8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  24. ^ "Journal of Biomedical informatics Editorial Board" (PDF). Journal of Biomedical Informatics. December 2013.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  25. ^ "BMC Bioinformatics Editorial Board". Association for Computing Machinery. 2024. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
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