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Department of Evolutionary Genetics

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 341 3550 - 500

e-mail: mittag@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Curriculum Vitae

Biographical

Name:	Janet Kelso
Nationality:	South African
Email:	kelso@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Employment

2004-present	Bioinformatics research group leader / Minerva Professor Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2003-2004	Postdoctoral researcher. University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Education

2003	Ph.D. (Bioinformatics). University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Advisor: Winston Hide
2000	M.Sc. (Med) (Chemical Pathology). University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
1997	B.Sc. (Med) (Hons) (Medical Biochemistry). University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
1995	B.Sc. (Biology). University of-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Fellowships and Awards

2016	Elected Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2010	AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper in Science in 2010 (with co-authors)
2004	L'Oréal-UNESCO/DST fellowship for Women in Science: Young Scientist Award
2003	Merck Student Fellowship

Scientific service

Editorial

2013 – present	Co-Executive Editor Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press)
2011 – 2012	Associate Editor Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press)
2009 – present	Associate Editor Database (Oxford University Press)
2014 – present	Editorial Board Genome Biology
2007 – 2014	Editor PLoS One
2012 – present	Editorial Board Springer book series: Computational Biology

International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)

2011 – 2013, 2017-	Vice-president, Executive Board
2006 – 2011	Secretary, Executive Board
2006 – present	Conference Committee chair
2005 – present	Member of Board of Directors

Conference Organisation

2015-2017	CSHL Genome Informatics Organiser (with Daniel McArthur, Mike Schatz, Aaron Quinlan and Melissa Wilson-Sayres)
2015, Dublin	ISMB/ECCB Conference co-chair (with Alex Bateman and Des Higgins) 2014, Boston ISMB Conference co-chair (with Bonnie Berger)
2014	CSHL Genome Informatics Session Chair (with Nick Loman)
2011	ISCB-Africa ASBCB Conference Co-Chair (with Nicola Mulder)
2006 – present	Member of the ISMB Conference Steering Committee 2006 – 2013 Chair of ISMB Tutorials Programme

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

2014 – present

Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer

Advisory Boards/Review Panels (Selected)

2018-	Advisory Board	H3-Africa BioNet
2016	Review Panel	ERC Consolidator Grants
2015-2017	Review panel	Centre for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), Vienna
2015	Review panel	EBI-EMBL External Services
2015 – present	Review board	H3-Africa/NIH Sickle Cell Disease Ontology Development
2013 – present	Advisory Board	ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board
2013 – present	Advisory Board	NIH-H3Africa Wits-INDEPTH Centre
2012, 2015	Advisory Board	Genome Canada Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2014 – present	Review panel	Hercules Foundation/FWO for Belgian Research Infrastructure
2009 – 2012	Review panel	South African National Research Foundation
2011	Advisory Board	Genome Canada 4D Genomics Platform
2010	Review panel	Deutsche Forschungsgsgemeinschaft (DFG) Instrumentation
2003 – 2011	Advisory Board	Genome Canada Bioinformatics Platform

Invited presentations and workshops (last 5 years)

2017	Human Evolution: Fossils, Ancient and Modern Genomes, Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, UK “The implications of admixture between modern and archaic humans” Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology, KAUST, Saudi Arabia “The Impact of Admixture between Modern and Archaic Humans” 19th EMBL PhD Symposium: Bridging the Gaps - Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany “What we have Learned from Ancient Genomes” Nordic-EMBL Partnership meeting, Helsinki, Finland “The impact of admixture between modern and archaic humans”
2016	5th International Symposium on Regulators of Adaptive Immunity, Erlangen, Germany “The contributions of archaic humans to modern human immunity” Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Functional Implications of admixture with archaic humans” EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany “Implications of admixture with archaic humans” BioVis 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA “Visualization in Ancient Genomics”
2015	ISABS Conference on Forensic and Anthropologic Genetics, Brač, Croatia. “Functional implications of admixture between modern and archaic humans” Australian Genome Technologies Conference (AGTA), Hunter Valley, Australia “What we have learned from sequencing ancient genomes”
2014	Genome Informatics Workshop / ISCB-Asia, Tokyo, Japan “An Early Modern Human from Ust’-Ishim” Colloquium Series Centre for Bioinformatics, Saarbrücken, Germany Reconstructing ancient human genomes Genome Informatics, Cambridge, UK “Archaic Genomes” ISCB-Latin America x-Meeting on Bioinformatics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil “Insights from the sequencing of ancient genomes” Seminar Series of the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Vienna, Austria “The genome of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains” Genome Informatics Workshop / ISCB-Asia, Tokyo, Japan “What we have learned from sequencing archaic human genomes” School of Biological Anthropology, Zagreb, Croatia “The genome of a 45,000 year-old modern human from Eurasia”
2013	The Next NGS Challenge, Valencia, Spain “Sequencing ancient human genomes” Beyond the Genome 2013, San Francisco, USA. “Sequencing ancient human genomes”