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Dr. Istrail is the Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University. Dr. Istrail was previously senior director and then head of the Informatics Research Group of Celera Genomics. Since 2003 Dr. Istrail has been a visiting associate in the Biology Division at California Institute of Technology, and an Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He was at Celera Genomics and Applied Biosystems from April 2000 through February 2005. In 2003 he joined the ranks of Applied Biosystems Science Fellows (one of the six Science Fellows in a company of 800 scientists). Prior to Celera, he founded the Computational Biology Project at Sandia National Laboratories (1992-2000). In 1998, his work on Protein Misfolding simulations was included by Scientific American in its "Best of 1998" list. In 2001, his work at Sandia on the computational intractability of the three-dimensional Ising model was ranked as the top 7th achievement in Advanced Scientific Computing in the Top 100 U.S. Department of Energy Most Important Discoveries in DOEs first 25 years. From 1985 until 1992, Dr. Istrail was a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology, co-founder of the RECOMB Conference Series, co-editor of the MIT Press Computational Molecular Biology book series, and co-editor of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics book series.

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