Podcasts Other SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Dr. Steven Salzberg, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Horvitz Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, 10-6-06

Dr. Steven Salzberg, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Horvitz Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, 10-6-06

Published: Oct. 8, 2006, 5 p.m.

Avian flu, H5N1, human genome, stem cell research. Dr. Steven Salzberg was part of the team that published the human genome in 2001, and has participated in the sequencing of genomes from a long list of human pathogens, including the microbes responsible for anthrax, Lyme disease, tuberculosis, and malaria. In 2004, Dr. Salzberg was one of the founders of the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, which is now in the process of sequencing thousands of isolates of the influenza virus, in an effort to help design better vaccines and to better understand the nature of influenza pandemics.