dr. Sorin ISTRAIL Professor of Computer Science Center for Computational Molecular Biology and Computer Science Department, Brown University Providence S.U.A. ----------------------------------- SNPs and the Human Genome: The Minimum Informative Subset ----------------------------------- SHORT CV ----------------------------------- Dr.Sorin Istrail has been Senior Director, Head of the Informatics Research Department at Celera Genomics/Applied Biosystems, Rockville, MD, USA since april 2000. His research focuses on computational biology (systems biology, protein folding, SNPs and haplotypes analysis and comparative genomics), computer science and statistical physics. Before joining Celera Genomics dr.Istrail held several research and teaching positions at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM, USA), California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA, USA), George Washington University (Washington, DC, USA), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA), Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, USA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), and University Al. I. Cuza (Iasi, Romania). Dr.Istrail completed his PhD in Computer Science in 1979 at the University of Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania) and his BSc in Computer Science in 1975 at the Al. I. Cuza University (Iasi, Romania).