Mark B. Gerstein

Mark Gerstein
Born	Mark Bender Gerstein February 23
Citizenship	US
Alma mater	Harvard University (AB) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	AAAS Fellow W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar Herchel Smith Scholarship ISCB Fellow and Senior Scientist Award
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics
Institutions	Harvard University University of Cambridge MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Stanford University Yale University
Thesis	Protein recognition: surfaces and conformational change (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Cyrus Chothia Ruth Lynden-Bell
Other academic advisors	Michael Levitt (postdoc)
Doctoral students	Werner Krebs
Other notable students	Jan O. Korbel

Website	www.gersteinlab.org

Mark Bender Gerstein is an American scientist working in bioinformatics and data science. He is the Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, professor of molecular biophysics & biochemistry, professor of statistics & data science, and professor of computer science at Yale University. He is also co-director of the Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program. In 2018, Gerstein was named co-director of the Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science.