Manolis Kellis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Manolis Kellis

Greek-born computational biologist

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1977

Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Profession: computer scientist, biologist, computational biologist

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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Manolis Kellis (born 1977, Greek: ?a????? ?aµß?s?????) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the area of Computational Biology and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
He is the head of the Computational Biology Group at MIT and is a Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT.Kellis is known for his contributions to genomics, human genetics, epigenomics, gene regulation, and genome evolution.
He co-led the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project effort to create a comprehensive map of the human epigenome, the comparative analysis of 29 mammals to create a comprehensive map of conserved elements in the human genome, the ENCODE, GENCODE, and modENCODE projects to characterize the genes, non-coding elements, and circuits of the human genome and model organisms.
A major focus of his work is understanding the effects of genetic variations on human disease, with contributions to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and cancer.