Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
Alma materNational University of La Plata
Known forRoot nodule research, genetic marker, silver stain, molecular evolution, phylogenomics
AwardsZuckerkandl Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Biology Astrobiology Genomics
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Websitehttp://gca.cropsci.illinois.edu/gca.html

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés (born 1955 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an American bioinformatician and computational biologist whose work focuses on evolutionary genomics. He is Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and holds a Health Innovation Professor appointment in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Caetano-Anollés has made contributions to molecular evolution, phylogenomics, and the evolutionary study of macromolecular structure. He is a recognized expert in the field of evolutionary biology and comparative genomics.