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 Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology, KAUST, Saudi Arabia 19th EMBL PhD Symposium: Bridging the Gaps - Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany Nordic-EMBL Partnership meeting, Helsinki, Finland |
2016 | 5th International Symposium on Regulators of Adaptive Immunity, Erlangen, Germany Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany BioVis 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA |
2015 | ISABS Conference on Forensic and Anthropologic Genetics, Brač, Croatia. Australian Genome Technologies Conference (AGTA), Hunter Valley, Australia |
2014 | Genome Informatics Workshop / ISCB-Asia, Tokyo, Japan Colloquium Series Centre for Bioinformatics, Saarbrücken, Germany Genome Informatics, Cambridge, UK ISCB-Latin America x-Meeting on Bioinformatics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Seminar Series of the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Vienna, Austria Genome Informatics Workshop / ISCB-Asia, Tokyo, Japan School of Biological Anthropology, Zagreb, Croatia |
2013 | The Next NGS Challenge, Valencia, Spain Beyond the Genome 2013, San Francisco, USA. |