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Janet Kelso

Group Leader: Computational Ancient Genomics

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

tel: +49 341 3550 552
fax: +49 341 3550 555
e-mail: kelso@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Curriculum Vitae
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Curriculum Vitae

Biographical

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

Employment

2004-presentGroup Leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2003-2004Postdoctoral researcher.
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Education

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

Grants, fellowships and awards

2017Chinese Academy of Sciences International Partnership Award for Young Scientists (with
Qiaomei Fu)
2016Elected Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2015DKFZ: Grant for sequencing of degraded DNA from FFPE samples in melanoma (with Matthias
Meyer and Susanna Horn of the MPI-EVA)
2012DFG Sonderforschungsbereich “Obesity Mechanisms” together with the SFB Consortium,
University of Leipzig.
2011EU COST Next generation sequencing data analysis network and training consortium.
2011DKFZ: Grant for melanoma transcriptome analysis (together with Professor Manfred Kunz,
University of Leipzig)
2010AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper in Science in 2010 (with co-authors)
2004L'Oréal-UNESCO/DST fellowship for Women in Science: Young Scientist Award
2003Merck Student Fellowship

Scientific service

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

International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2011 – 2013, 2017-2019Vice-president, Executive Board
2006 – 2011Secretary, Executive Board
2006 – presentConference Committee chair
2005 – presentMember of Board of Directors

Conference Organisation
2019Advances in Computational Biology / Bioinfo4Women. Conference co-chair
(with Núria López-Bigas and Alison Kennedy)
2015-2017CSHL 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

Advisory Boards/Review Panels (Selected)
2019ReviewerChinese Academy of Sciences Institute of
Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
2018-Advisory Board H3-Africa BioNet
2016Review PanelERC Consolidator Grants
2015-2017Review panelCentre for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), Vienna
2015 Review panelEBI-EMBL External Services
2015 – presentReview boardH3-Africa/NIH Sickle Cell Disease Ontology Development
2013 – present Advisory BoardELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board
2013 – presentAdvisory BoardNIH-H3Africa Wits-INDEPTH Centre
2012, 2015Advisory BoardGenome Canada Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2014 – presentReview panelHercules Foundation/FWO for Belgian Research Infrastructure
2009 – 2012Review panelSouth African National Research Foundation
2011 Advisory BoardGenome Canada 4D Genomics Platform
2010 Review panelDeutsche Forschungsgsgemeinschaft (DFG) Instrumentation
2003 – 2011Advisory BoardGenome Canada Bioinformatics Platform

Invited presentations and workshops (last 5 years)

2020

Congress of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology, Sevilla, Spain
“Archaic Genomics”

Human Genome Meeting, Perth, Australia (virtual presentation due to COVID-19)
“The impact of admixture between archaic and modern humans”

European Society of Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany (virtual presentation due to COVID-19)
“Genomes of Archaic Humans and their Contribution to Modern Humans”

2019

Cold Spring Harbor Genome Informatics, Cold Spring Harbor, USA
“The Evolutionary History of Neandertal and Denisovan Y Chromosomes”

SCAS Workshop, Uppsala University, Sweden
“The fate of Neandertal DNA in modern humans”

ISMB-ECCB 2019 VarI-COSI, Basel, Switzerland
“Using archaic genomes in the studies of human-specific variation”

2018

Genome Informatics Workshop, Kunming, China
“The impact of admixture between archaic and modern humans”

XIV Symposium on Bioinformatics (JBI2018), Granada, Spain
“The impact and fate of Neandertal DNA in modern humans”

JBI2018 Student Symposium, Granada, Spain
“Career Paths in Science”

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”

Publications

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