Terry Speed splits his time roughly 50:50 between the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley (Jan-May) and WEHI (June-Dec) each year.
His research and teaching interests cover many aspects of the application of statistics to genetics and molecular biology, including biomolecular sequence analysis, the mapping of genes in experimental crosses and human pedigrees, and the analysis of gene expression data.
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis obtained his B.Sc. in 1995 and M.Sc. with Prof. Eleftherios Zouros in 1997 in Biology from the University of Crete (Greece). In 1997 he moved to the USA, to do his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Prof. Andrew Clark at Pennsylvania State University, which he obtained in 2001.
His Ph.D. thesis was on evolutionary biology and population genetics of regulatory DNA in mammals and Drosophila. In November of 2001 he joined the laboratory of Prof. Stylianos Antonarakis in the Department of Genetic Medicine and Development at the University of Geneva Medical School, as a postdoctoral research scientist.
His research focus was on comparative genome analysis and the functional characterization of conserved non-genic elements and participated in the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium. Since April 2004, he has been a group leader in Population and Comparative Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
His current research focus is on the genetic basis of regulatory
variation in the human genome, the processes that govern
non-coding DNA evolution and genetic variation and the population
genetics of human pathogens such as Plasmodium falciparum
(the malaria pathogen). He has served as an analysis co-chair in
the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of Dna Elements) consortium and member of
the analysis group and steering committee of the International
HapMap project. He has authored and co-authored more than
40 papers in peer-reviewed journals including a number of papers
in Nature, Science and Nature Genetics.