Shiran Pasternak
 Scientific Informatics Analyst II Born: Rishon Le'Zion, Israel |
Shiran joined CSHL in July, 2005, after spending four years as a bioinformaticist at the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he developed software applications for the Human Genome Project and the HapMap Project, and led a grassroots effort to instill software engineering best practices. He is presently project lead for the NSF-funded Maize Genome Project, collaborating with a multi-institutional consortium and working closely with Gramene to provide a system for analyzing and visualizing the maize genome sequence. Shiran is an avid road cyclist and lives with his wife in New York City. Shiran has a B.A. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Biology, and an M.S. in Computer Science, all from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. |