Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
Gustavo Caetano-Anollés | |
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| Alma mater | National University of La Plata |
| Known for | Root nodule research, genetic marker, silver stain, molecular evolution, phylogenomics |
| Awards | Zuckerkandl Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Biology Astrobiology Genomics |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Website | http://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.