Abstract:
The University of Miami Center for Computational Science (CCS) focuses its efforts on catalyzing interdisciplinary computational science among all divisions, departments, schools and colleges involved in research science and engineering. CCS provides the intellectual leadership and resources to support the deployment of pioneering computational methods. The Center is initially comprised of 5 programs, namely, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Data Mining, and Visualization. In addition, the Center will operate two resource cores: high performance computing and software engineering. An overview of the programs and cores as well as a sample of current projects will be discussed in more details.

Biography:
Dr. Nicholas Tsinoremas holds faculty appointments at the Miller School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. Hereceived his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds, UK. Before joining the University of Miami he served as Senior Director of Informatics at The Scripps Research Institute- Florida. There he recruited and managed the Informatics and IT groups for the newly formed Scripps Florida. In the past, he was Director of Computational Genomics and Genomic Discovery atRosetta/Merck where he directed the project that combined informatics and computational approaches with gene expression profiling and genetics to discover, prioritize, and define drug target genes. Prior to working for Merck/Rosetta, Tsinoremas was the Vice-President of Genomics at DoubleTwist Inc., where he determined the scientific direction of DoubleTwist's bioinformatics applications and databases.