Board of Directors

As of MCBIOS XI, March 8, 2014
 

Chaoyang (Joe) Zhang, Ph.D., President

Board Member thru 2016, Director, School of computing, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg MS

Cesar Compadre, Ph.D., President-Elect

Board member thru 2017 Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock AR

Andy D. Perkins, Ph.D., Past-President

Board Member thru 2015 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville MS

Dennis Burian, Ph.D., Treasurer

Board Member Research Scientist, Functional Genomics Group, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, FAA, Oklahoma City OK

Debra Knisley, Ph.D., Secretary

Board Member thru 2015, Director Institute for Quantitative Biology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City TN

Rakesh Kaundal, Ph.D.

Board Member thru 2015 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK

Roger Perkins

Board Member thru 2016 Program Director, Information Tech and Bioinformatics Contract, National Center for Toxicology Research, FDA.  Director, Bioinformatics Division, Z-Tech Corporation, Jefferson AR

Mikhail Dozmorov, Ph.D.

Board Member thru 2016 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City OK

Shraddha Thakkar

Board Member thru 2017 University of Arkansas Little Rock, Little Rock AR

Jianlin (Jack) Cheng, Ph.D.

Board Member thru 2017, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia MO

 

Terms expire at the conclusion of the annual conference during the indicated year.

MCBIOS Past-Presidents

Steven F. Jennings, Ph.D., 1st President
ex officio Board Member Professor, Department of Information Science University Arkansas at Little Rock
https://bioinformatics.ualr.edu/jennings

William Slikker, Jr., Ph.D., 2nd President
ex officio Board Member Director, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR
https://www.fda.gov/nctr/

Stephen Winters-Hilt, Ph.D., 3rd President
ex officio Board Member Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of New Orleans Director, Nanopore Biophysics Lab, Research Institute for Children
https://www.cs.uno.edu/~winters

Jonathan Wren, Ph.D., 4th President
ex officio Board Member Assistant Member Arthritis & Immunology Department Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
https://www.omrf.org/OMRF/Research/09/WrenJ.asp

Dawn Wilkins Ph.D., 5th President
ex officio Board Member Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Mississippi
https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~dwilkins/

Daniel Berleant, Ph.D., 6th President
ex officio Board Member Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Science University Arkansas at Little Rock
https://ifsc.ualr.edu/jdberleant

Ulisses Braga-Neto, Ph.D., 7th President
ex officio Board Member Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX https://www.ece.tamu.edu/~ulisses/

Doris M. Kupfer, Ph.D.,  8th President
ex officio Board Member Research Scientist, Functional Genomics Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, FAA, Oklahoma City, OK

Ed Perkins, Ph.D.,  9th President
ex officio Board Member Senior Research Scientist, Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS