Volker Brendel
E-mail:
vbrendel@iu.edu
WWW:
https://brendelgroup.org/
Narrative
Volker Brendel became member of the IU faculty in January 2012, with a joint appointment as
Professor in the Department of Biology and the School of Informatics and Computing.
His research interests bridge molecular biology, statistical modeling, and bioinformatics algorithm development.
Several software applications from his group are in wide use, including programs for gene
structure prediction and sequence comparisons
(https://brendelgroup.org/bioinformatics2go).
His group has also been involved in the development and implementation of databases and
web resources for genetic and genomic data, in particular for maize
(www.maizegdb.org) and other plants
(PlantGDB; retired web resource).
Recent efforts of the group have been devoted to exploring cyberinfrastructure solutions to mining massive amounts of
new genomic sequence data.
Prior to joining Indiana University, Dr. Brendel was the Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics at Iowa State University.
He received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1981 and his Ph.D. in
Life Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1986.
From 1987 to 1998, Dr. Brendel was at Stanford University, CA, as postdoctoral associate, research associate, and lecturer.
Degrees and Appointments
Professor, 2012-present,
Department of Biology and
Department of Computer Science,
Indiana University Bloomington.
Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics, 2002-2011,
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
(formerly Department of Zoology & Genetics),
Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment),
Iowa State University, Iowa, U.S.A.
Chair, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Aug. 2009 - Aug. 2011
Professor, 2001-2011,
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
(formerly Department of Zoology & Genetics),
Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment),
Iowa State University, Iowa, U.S.A.
Associate Professor, 1998-2000,
Department of Zoology & Genetics,
Iowa State University, Iowa, U.S.A.
Research Associate (and [part-time] Lecturer in Mathematics), 1989-1998,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
Postdoctoral Associate in bioinformatics, 1987-1988,
Advisor: Samuel Karlin,
Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
Ph.D. Life Sciences, 1986,
Advisor: Edward Trifonov,
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
M.Sc. Applied Statistics, 1981,
University of Oxford, UK
(undergraduate) Mathematics and Biology, 1976-1979,
Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, Germany